A Taylorsville kindergarten student who wants to be a police officer someday cried himself to sleep Wednesday night after someone stole his miniature electric police car that he received as a birthday present last year.
Brittnee Squibb has filed a police report about her son Conner Burton’s miniature police car being taken, which was on the side of the Circle K gas station at the corner of U.S. 31 and Tannehill Road in Taylorsville just after 8 p.m. Wednesday.
“We had a rough night last night,” Squibb said Thursday morning. “He cried all night.”
Squibb had accompanied her sons Conner, 5, and his brother Hunter Burton, 1, with the boys in the miniature car from their home in the Driftside Trailer Court to the gas station to get a snack, she said.
They had left the car on the sidewalk at the gas station along with a gas can just after 8 p.m. and were only inside the store for about three minutes, she said. When they went back outside, the miniature car and the gas can were gone.
Conner has been inconsolable about the loss of his car, which arrived about a year ago as a special birthday surprise from his grandmother, Vonda Pacek, Elizabethtown.
During Conner’s birthday party, officers from Edinburgh Police Department went to the party with their cars, lights and sirens to celebrate the gift, Pacek said. At the time, Pacek worked as a dispatcher for Edinburgh and the officers graciously agreed to surprise the boy.
Anyone with information about the missing miniature car is asked to call the Bartholomew County Sheriff’s Department at 812-379-1689 or the tip line where information may be left anonymously at 812-379-1712. Emails may be sent to [email protected].
For more on this story, see Friday’s Republic.
