
Galesburg Police on Tuesday, July 27th responded to the 1000 block of West Carl Sandburg Drive for reports of a stolen vehicle. While en route, officers received a call from Knox County Sheriff’s Deputies who reported the stolen vehicle had been recovered near Oneida. When making the original report, the vehicle’s owner, of Burlington, Iowa, told GPD, after he realized his vehicle was missing, he made a few phone calls to employees and coworkers of his – thinking someone was “messing with him”, according to police reports. The vehicle was involved in a single-vehicle rollover accident. Two subjects were taken into custody after they were seen walking away from the accident by Sheriff’s Deputies. The two subjects: 18-year old Jacob Allen Smith and 31-year old Nicholas Scott Reed both of Galesburg admitted to stealing the vehicle and to be the only two that were inside the vehicle during the theft and the crash. The vehicle was considered totaled. Smith and Reed were each charged with the Theft of a Motor Vehicle and booked at the Knox County Jail. The two also face additional charges through the Knox County Sheriff’s Department.