ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. — A Tennessee man was arrested Thursday afternoon after deputies said he pulled into the Buc-ee’s near World Golf Village driving a car that was reported stolen out of Virginia.
Brett Lee Dixon, 29, was spotted on surveillance video pulling up to a gas pump at Buc-ee’s on World Commerce Parkway, according to a St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office arrest report.
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Dixon was driving a green Jeep Cherokee with a Virginia tag, which had the passenger’s side window busted out and glass was all over the floorboard, the report said.
Deputies contacted the man who owns the car and told them he did not give Dixon permission to use the Jeep, only his son.
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When being booked into the St. Johns County Jail, Dixon originally gave police a fake name, Shane T. Cansler, and a scan by a fingerprint machine revealed his true identity, deputies said.
Dixon’s Tennessee license has been revoked, deputies also discovered.
He is facing charges of grand theft of a motor vehicle, knowingly driving while license suspended/canceled/revoked, and providing a false name to law enforcement.
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