Illinois Stolen Vehicle Recovered on Oregon Coast, Aug. 15

News release from Newport PD. On 08/13/2014, at 6:30 p.m., a Newport Police Officer located a stolen vehicle being driven southbound on Hwy 101 near NW 12th Street. The vehicle, which was reported stolen from Illinois, was occupied by three subjects. The officer confirmed the vehicle as stolen, and began coordinating additional responding units. Three additional Newport Police Officers, and two Lincoln County Sheriff Deputies, responded to assist. Officers conducted a “High Risk Vehicle Stop” at the intersection of Hwy 101 and NW 3rd Street. Due to the possibility of unknown threats inside the vehicle, Officers ordered the occupants out of the vehicle at gun point. All three occupants of the vehicle complied with the officers’ requests, and were quickly detained. Officers learned the driver of the vehicle, Mohammad Savage, age 28 of Champaign, Illinois, had taken the vehicle without permission from an acquaintance in Illinois. The other two occupants of the vehicle were determined to have been hitchhikers picked up by Savage during his travels, and not connected to the theft of the vehicle. They were released at the scene. Savage was transported to the Lincoln County Jail and booked on one count of Possession of a Stolen Vehicle. His bail was set at $100,000.