January 18, 2005

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  Alleged Truck Thief Swallows Tobacco Spit
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Mon Jan 17, 4:40 PM ET

  
  

  
  

  VANCOUVER, Wash. - A man who failed to look before he swallowed and wound up choking on someone else's tobacco spit has been arrested in the theft of a tractor-trailer rig, police said.
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  Cuitlahvac Renteria-Martinez, 26, was arrested for investigation of first-degree theft shortly after he called 911 for emergency medical help.
  

  
  

  According to the report, the driver of a $60,000 Freightliner containing about $15,000 worth of merchandise left the engine idling at a local shopping mall, then emerged to see the truck being driven away. 
  

  
  

  After being arrested, Renteria-Martinez told investigators he was driving when he saw a cup, took a drink without looking and only then learned it he had swallowed the regular driver's tobacco spit, police wrote.
  

   

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