The incident occurred in the Frolovsky district of the Volgograd region.
According to the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region, on the night of March 23, traffic police inspectors stopped a Ford Focus on one of the roads in Frolovo. Behind the wheel was a man with obvious signs of drunkenness, who could not show the car documents.
Law enforcement determined the car was driven by a previously convicted 42-year-old mechanic at a local auto service. He stole a foreign car from the workshop. The owner of the car is a 61-year-old resident who left the car for repair.
An administrative investigation has been opened into the fact of being drunk driving. In addition, the question of initiating criminal proceedings under part 1 of article 166 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Illegal possession of a car or other vehicle without the purpose of theft is being resolved.
Now the car mechanic faces up to five years in prison.
