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Saturday, June 07, 2025

Doughnut truck thief caught again

Reports of an intoxicated driver Wednesday morning led Dane County Sheriff's deputies to not one but two arrests, including a man who stole a Krispy Kreme doughnut truck last fall. 

 

Lt. R.J. Lurquin with the Dane County Sheriff's Office said deputies arrested Jean Jacobson, 44, early Wednesday in a Verona Road parking lot for her alleged seventh operating-while-intoxicated offense. 

 

Lurquin said Jacobson's passenger turned out to be 36-year-old Warren Whitelightning, whom deputies arrested for an outstanding warrant after he failed to appear in court to be sentenced for charges stemming from the theft of a Krispy Kreme truck. 

 

In November 2007, Whitelightning stole the truck from an Open Pantry parking lot and led both city and university police on a chase down University Avenue, according to a Madison Police Department report.  

 

Police eventually caught Whitelightning and arrested him for a fourth OWI offense, eluding police, theft and other traffic violations.

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