A very naughty mayor in Missouri is dishonest and behind bars after he stole a skid steer from a recently deceased man in the town of St. Mary, Missouri. Adam Bequette, was arrested and charged with tampering with a motor vehicle and stealing.
The skid steer's owner reportedly died in March. Although the machine should have gone to his two adult children, when they went to his property to pick it up it was nowhere to be found.
The children reported the missing skid steer, worth an estimated $18,000, and police began an investigation that led them to city workers that claimed they were instructed by Mayor Bequette to move the machine since it was blocking access to water lines.
Bequette claimed that he contacted the deceased man's family to notify them about the moving, but police said they found no evidence that the skid steer was blocking the water lines, nor that Bequette had contacted the family.
Police said they eventually found the skid steer inside a city facility and returned it to the family.