BATON ROUGE — A man allegedly tried to steal a truck but ditched it as he could not drive a manual transmission, and then stole a different truck with a dog in the backseat.
According to the East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office, 22-year-old D’Juan Cooper approached a man who was walking to his truck outside an apartment on Jade Avenue around 10:40 on Sunday morning and asked for a ride.
He then allegedly held the man at gunpoint and robbed him of his keys and phone. Cooper tried to steal the man’s truck, but could not drive its manual transmission and ended up running away…