Arizona man, 29, tells cops he stole a motorcycle because he got drunk off vodka and wine while celebrating four months of sobriety
- Jackson Brady Hanley Jr, 29, rode his own bicycle to Kelly’s Kawasaki in Mesa, ‘grabbed a Kawasaki motorcycle and began pushing it down the street’
- A witness went inside the dealership and reported the theft to an employee
- Cops found him a mile away ‘resting on a fence with the bike slightly tipped over but still upright’
- Hanley ‘admitted to stealing the motorcycle’ and being drunk off vodka and wine
- ‘He said he was celebrating 4 months of sobriety and decided he wanted a motorcycle,’ a police report said
- Hanley was booked into jail on theft of means of transport, a class three felony
- He caused $3,500 worth of damage to the exhaust of the motorbike
Jackson Brady Hanley Jr, 29, was booked into jail on theft of means of transport, a class three felony on February 11
An Arizona man has told police he got drunk and stole a motorbike because he was celebrating a sobriety milestone.
Jackson Brady Hanley Jr, 29, rode his own bicycle to Kelly’s Kawasaki in Mesa, ‘grabbed a Kawasaki motorcycle and began pushing it down the street’ on the afternoon of Tuesday February 11.
A witness went inside the dealership by Country Club Drive near Eighth Avenue and north of Southern Avenue, and reported the theft to an employee.
It didn’t take cops long to catch up with Hanley a mile away.
The suspect was found ‘resting on a fence with the bike slightly tipped over but still upright’ by 10th Avenue and Drew Street.
Police said he ‘admitted to stealing the motorcycle’.
Hanley was ‘admittedly drunk’ police said. He confessed he was intoxicated from drinking Moscato wine and vodka. He admitted it before and after he was read his Miranda rights, police said.
Hanley rode his own bicycle to Kelly’s Kawasaki in Mesa, ‘grabbed a Kawasaki motorcycle and began pushing it down the street’. He caused $3,500 worth of damage to the exhaust
Hanley ‘admitted to stealing the motorcycle’ and being drunk off vodka and wine. ‘He said he was celebrating 4 months of sobriety and decided he wanted a motorcycle,’ police report said
‘He said he was celebrating 4 months of sobriety and decided he wanted a motorcycle,’ a police report obtained by The Smoking Gun said. ‘The defendant said he was just going to walk it back home and try and start it there.’
He was arrested just 4pm and booked into jail on one count of theft of means of transport. It’s a class three felony.
The way ‘the motorcycle was leaning against the asphalt’ caused $3,500 worth of damage to the exhaust.
A police report said: ‘The defendant said he was just going to walk it back home and try and start it there’