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The Indiana Daily Student

Car stolen from fraternity

A member of Sigma Chi fraternity told police his car was stolen early Saturday morning, according to an IU Police Department report. \nAfter parking his 2002 Jeep Cherokee overnight at the fraternity house, the man told police he woke up in the morning to find his car missing, said IUPD Capt. Jerry Minger, reading from the police report. \nPolice then entered the report in Indiana Data and Communications System, which Minger said would generate a hit if any other checks or queries had come up with that vehicle's license plate number.\nThe system indicated a hit from 4:10 that morning in Martinsville when a Martinsville Police Department officer arrested Eric A. Troyer, 21, for drunk driving and public intoxication while he was driving the Sigma Chi member's missing vehicle, Minger said.\nWhen an IUPD officer questioned Troyer, who was being held in Morgan County Jail and who is listed as a Purdue student in the Purdue database, said he was borrowing the car, Minger said. \n"He wanted to go back to Purdue and stated that this subject, whom he couldn't or did not name to the officer, said that he would let Troyer borrow his car for $20 if he just returned it the following day," Minger said.\nPolice questioned the Sigma Chi member, who said he had never met Troyer and did not let him borrow the car, Minger said. The Sigma Chi member told police he had left the car unlocked when it was stolen, Minger said. Officers found a spare key in the center console of the car when they arrested Troyer, Minger said.

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