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Without the required driver's license and under the influence of drugs: A man convicted of theft and wanted on an arrest warrant stole a bus in southern Germany.
He had stolen the vehicle in the night from Wednesday to Thursday from a parking lot of a leisure pool in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria.
In Pfullingen in Baden-Württemberg, about 80 kilometers away, the police finally discovered the bus, as the officials said.
Inside, they came across the 29-year-old thief and his 20-year-old girlfriend.
The couple slept.
Taken to a Bavarian prison
According to the police, the investigation revealed that the 29-year-old had been convicted of theft and embezzlement, among other things.
On Tuesday he would have had to serve a prison sentence for this, instead he took off with the stolen bus.
The police assume that the man wanted to evade a prison sentence ordered in another matter.
Since a drug test showed that the man had consumed marijuana and amphetamines, he now has to answer again for theft and for driving under the influence of drugs and without a license.
He was taken to a Bavarian prison.
The bus was damaged by around a thousand euros.
apr / dpa