NEW PHILADELPHIA (Tusco TV) - A 24-year-old Dover man is facing possible felony charges after police found him in a shopping center parking lot in a stolen pickup truck.

Police call logs indicate Brian Lee Smith Jr. was located Wednesday around 6:30 am after someone called about a suspicious person slumped over the steering wheel in a black truck parked outside Planet Fitness. Officers arrived and checked the truck’s registration and learned it was stolen out of Dover.  

The same man was reported to be hanging out in front of the Circle K on North Wooster Avenue for several hours earlier that morning. The clerk told police the man came into the store at one point and attempted to make a purchase with a fake $100 bill, then took off on a bike. Dover police caught up with him in the Rascal’s parking lot, and he told them he didn’t realize the bill was counterfeit.   

Smith is charged in New Philadelphia Municipal Court with receiving stolen property, with an additional charge possible for illegally carrying a concealed weapon. A report will be sent to the county prosecutor.