Woman arrested after stealing taxi cab near Fosston

Photo by: WDAY Radio Staff
Photo by: WDAY Radio Staff

(Fosston, MN) -- A Cass Lake, Minnesota woman is behind bars after stealing a taxi cab in Fosston Tuesday evening.

The Fosston Police Department tells WDAY Radio officers were dispatched to the Lepier's East Gas Station around 6:51 p.m. to take a report from a Doyle Taxi Cab driver who had went to use the restroom and came back outside to find his taxi was stolen.

The person who stole the van, who has been identified as 34-year-old Mardee Jones, was actually the passenger in the taxi who was being transported from Essentia-Fargo to Cass Lake.

After tracking the Taxi's GPS, and with the assistance of the Bemidji Police Department, authorities were able to find Jones in the Bemidji area.

Jones was then taken into custody on a Theft of a vehicle charge, and is being held at the North West Regional Corrections Center in Crookston.