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Prosecutors: Naked woman steals Pleasant Prairie Fire Dept. vehicle
A bizarre story out of Pleasant Prairie. A woman is accused of stealing a vehicle from the fire department early Tuesday morning. Officials only found out about it after she allegedly started talking on the radio. And when they found her in the vehicle, she was naked.
PLEASANT PRAIRIE, Wis. - A Kenosha woman has been criminally charged, accused of stealing a Pleasant Prairie Fire Department vehicle. The accused, 36-year-old Emily Fair, faces a single count of operating a motor vehicle without the owner's consent.
Truck stolen
The backstory:
At roughly 1:54 a.m. on Aug. 4, a criminal complaint states that an officer spotted a Pleasant Prairie Fire Department pickup truck parked near the Gateway Technical College Lakeview Advanced Technology Center with its headlamps and overhead takedown lights turned on.
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Per the complaint, the officer briefly engaged with the driver, Emily Fair. Before driving away, Fair asked the officer, "Are you following me or am I following you?"
Dispatch later confirmed to the officer that the fire department vehicle was believed to be stolen.
Emily Fair
Driver arrested
What we know:
Shortly afterward, the officer spotted the fire unit near Frogger's Landing, close to the DPW Garage. As the vehicle turned around in a gravel driveway, the officer signaled the driver to stop. The operator complied and was identified as Emily Fair, court filings say.
According to the complaint, when the officer opened the driver's side door, Fair was completely unclothed. She claimed her dress was in the truck bed and falsely asserted she was a Station #3 firefighter authorized to drive the vehicle.
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Surveillance video from Pleasant Prairie Fire Station #3 showed Fair entering the fire unit at approximately 1:00 a.m., activating its emergency red lights, and driving the stolen vehicle off the property at 1:03 a.m.
Court proceedings
What's next:
Fair made her intal appearance in court on Aug. 4. A competency hearing was scheduled for Aug. 26.
The Source: Information in this story is from the Kenosha County District Attorney's Office and Wisconsin Circuit Court.