A homeless man in Leesburg was arrested after allegedly taking his grandmother’s truck without permission for a “joy ride or something.”
A deputy met with the grandmother of 22-year-old Travis Leon Shiver at her camper in Leesburg around 1:15 p.m. Monday, March 16, according to an arrest report from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
She explained that Shiver had been living in her camper for the past seven days. However, he had taken her white 2022 Toyota Tacoma without permission that morning and returned it several hours later. She was asleep at the time and only heard about it when her neighbor texted her photos from her Ring camera that captured a person leaving and coming back in the truck at the given times, the report said.
The grandmother normally kept the truck keys in a purse in her bedroom, but an extra key hung on a hook in the kitchen. She believed Shiver used the extra key to take the vehicle to a park area, as she had just washed the truck the day before, and it was now muddy, the report said…