Thanks to a story aired by Z107.7 and posted online Wednesday, a member of the public alerted Sheriff’s deputies to the location of a car that had been stolen off a dealership lot in Twentynine Palms Tuesday evening. Deputy Zach Carlos of the Morongo Basin Sheriff’s Station spotted the blue 2015 Audi on Highway 62 at 8:30 Thursday morning, being driven eastbound on the highway by Jonathan Polkey, 40, a transient. With assistance from other deputies, Carlos stopped Polkey in the stolen car near Sierra Avenue in Joshua Tree. Just before 7 p.m. Tuesday, a man, identified through surveillance video as a while male with facial hair, went through several unlocked cars at the Twentynine Palms Truck Center before finding keys inside the Audi, which he then drove it off the lot. Jonathan Polkey was arrested for investigation of possession of a stolen vehicle, and booked into the Morongo Basin Jail, with his bail set at $50,000.
