According to an Aug. 14 news release from Police Chief Don Scheibler, the semi-truck had previously been impounded and stored at a business in the 500 block of Vine Street.
The semi-truck owner, later identified as Mitchell W. Dallmann, 29, reportedly pulled a rifle out of his red Ford Mustang while in the parking lot of Augie’s Repair & Towing, 506 Vine.
Dallmann cycled the action of the rifle, waved it around while yelling at an employee of the business and then drove off southbound, Scheibler said in the news release.
Dallmann was located in La Crosse by the Rush County Sheriff’s Department and was arrested without further incident for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Dallman is currently in the Ellis County Jail.
“The Hays Police Department would like to thank the Ellis County Sheriff’s Department, Rush County Sheriff’s Department, and the Kansas Highway Patrol for their assistance,” Scheibler noted. “Dallmann is considered innocent until proven guilty by a court of law.