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MISSION, Kan. — Police in Mission, Kansas are searching for a man who allegedly took another man’s money and drove away while he still had his arm in the vehicle.

Police say that around 1:10 p.m. last Wednesday, the victim, Antonio Bustos, was pumping gas into his vehicle when he noticed a woman who was sitting in the passenger side of another vehicle offering to sell him a tablet.

“She waved at me so I looked  over and see what she wanted and she showed me a tablet,” Bustos told FOX 4 on Friday.

It wasn’t just any tablet, but a Lenovo Yoga 3. On Amazon, it’s marked at $1,200. He says the woman claimed  needed cash quick to pay her rent. So Bustos says he offered $300, money he got from working that day.

Police are searching for man who allegedly drove a vehicle and pulled a man alongside of it.
Police are searching for man who allegedly drove a vehicle and pulled a man alongside of it.

Bustos says that he began chatting with the woman, and the two eventually agreed on a price he could buy the tablet for. Police say the suspect returned to his vehicle to gather payment. Then upon his return to the seller’s vehicle, he was asked to walk around to the driver’s side. The victim then tried to hand the driver his money and reach for the tablet he was trying to purchase. The victim was not given the tablet and the vehicle began moving and dragged the victim nearly 40 feet until he was able to let go.

“I had my arm inside the car and that’s when I was kind of dragged by the car. At the same time I was trying to pull his shirt to make him stop,” Bustos says.

“We thought with a photograph as clear as this one we would for sure have this guy identified by now at least within the law enforcement community,” says Dan Madden of the Mission police department.

Madden says he’s surprised this happened in a parking lot of a busy gas station. Bustos says he just wants this duo off the streets.

“Thinking they’re going to do it again if they’re out there,” Bustos says.

(photo courtesy of Mission police)
(photo courtesy of Mission police)

Mission police ask that anyone with information to please call (913) 676-8300 or the TIPS Hotline at (816) 474-TIPS.