 Thanks for checking this video out. Your mountaintop news video is coming up in just a minute. Did you know that it's going to be watched thousands of times, shared a bunch of times, likes, comments, you name it, it's going to be there? Why is it your ad here? Call me. The Pikeville Police Department responded to a call Friday evening concerning the theft of what was described as dispatchers as a fake car battery. The case didn't take too long to solve, however, thanks to a billion GPS tracker on the stolen device and a somewhat suspicious statement from the suspect himself. The Pikeville Police Department received the call of a stolen battery from diversified gas and oil and Officer Patrick Coleman responded to that. They advised that they had had, you know, what they referred to as a fake battery stolen. It was actually not a fake battery, it's a real battery. It's just encased in a larger battery casing. Luckily, that battery was equipped with the GPS tracking device. So the personnel from the diversified were able to go along with Officer Coleman and go to the area that it was pinging at. And you know, sometimes that can be like a 300 foot radius, 500 foot, it could just be a general area. So you never really know. So they went to this exact address that it was given, 147 Azalea Alley. And once they got there, Officer Coleman noticed the man that had the hood popped on a vehicle and appeared to be working on it. So he went and made contact with that individual. His name was Joshua Johnson. And when he made contact with him, he, you know, was trying to advise him of the complaint. And from my understanding, Mr. Johnson said, look, I had nothing to do with a theft or anything like that and offered that information up without even being asked. According to a copy of the arrest citation obtained by Mountaintop News, upon being approached by police, the male subject immediately put his arms up in the air and stated, I didn't steal anything. The suspect then gave police consent to search the vehicle he was repairing, which is when officers noticed something strange. He got consent search, went up, looked under the hood and noticed that there was a battery in where your car battery would go and that particular make a model. And it, you know, looked like it was spray painted orange. He was spray painted orange to try to conceal it, you know, hide the serial number on it, make it look like a different battery than it was. Just, I would say, like I said earlier, even though Mr. Officer come with it and he could sent to search, he went above and beyond and got that, which he offered up probably thinking that he had concealed it good enough, which he hadn't. So he removed that battery and realized that it was in fact spray painted orange and you can still see the serial number, make a model and everything. Diversified was on scene, was able to identify it as their battery. And Mr. Johnson was placed under arrest for receiving stolen property and I believe he had some failure to appear when it's also. Johnson is currently being held in the Pike County Detention Center. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joshua Sloan.