People along the East Coast are rallying to find Lucky, a 10-year-old Airedale Terrier mix, who went missing after a car theft in Pennsylvania.
Lucky was inside a vehicle that was stolen on September 23 from a Tractor Supply Store in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania. The vehicle was later involved in a high-speed chase on Interstate 95 with Sheriff’s Deputies in Nash County, North Carolina.
The driver, Kenneth Crider, 43, of Poolesville, Maryland, was arrested after crashing the vehicle, but Lucky was nowhere to be found. Crider told investigators he let Lucky go.
Investigators said they believe Lucky was abandoned at a rest area along I-95 in North Carolina.
“From what I’ve been told, he was at a rest stop,” said Linda Martz Folino, who is spearheading the search efforts for her father, Lucky’s owner.
Folino’s father, 87-year-old Marine veteran Willard Martz, is battling cancer and is heartbroken over the loss of his companion.
“It’s been awful,” Linda Martz said. “My poor father has been through hell.”