Baton Rouge Police are looking for a man who allegedly stole seven school buses from multiple area schools over the course of a month, abandoning each one after a joy ride, according to a warrant for his arrest.
Investigators identified Christopher Johnson, 20, using surveillance footage, and issued a warrant to arrest him on seven counts of motor vehicle theft. This wasn’t the first time Johnson has been accused of stealing a school bus — he has a prior arrest warrant from a 2024 heist in which he allegedly painted the bus white to try to get away with it, according to court documents.
On April 13, Baton Rouge Police received a call from The Dufrocq School, off Government Street in Baton Rouge, where a stolen Iberville Charter Academy bus had been parked in front of the building for some time. Police said they later found that the same bus was abandoned in a lot on Spain Street…