ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police have arrested a man suspected of breaking into a business, stealing a truck and crashing it on the Glenn Highway.
Police said 38-year-old Shane Wade continued driving on damaged wheels, sending up sparks that set the truck on fire just before 4 a.m. Sunday.
Police said Wade abandoned the truck on the highway near Wasilla, hitched a ride back toward Anchorage and was arrested.
He’s being held on suspicion of burglary, theft, vehicle theft, criminal mischief and leaving an accident scene.
Police said security surveillance video shows Wade using rock to break into the front glass doors of a business, Batteries Plus, in south Anchorage and stealing keys to the truck.
He was booked into the Anchorage jail.
Online court records did not list an attorney for Wade.
