STOREY COUNTY, Nev. (KOLO) - The Storey County Sheriff’s Office offers sage advice: “Moral of this story, do not bring illegal substances into Storey County, and most certainly not to our detention facility parking lot!”

The warning comes after an agency Facebook post on Sunday, Aug. 24, describing a “can’t make this up incident.”

Earlier this week, a man pulled a red Chevrolet pickup into the Storey County Detention Facility parking lot.

The person told detention deputies the truck had broken down and a tow truck was on the way.

Fast forward to Sunday, the truck was still parked in the detention facility parking lot with no sign of the owner.

Because the vehicle appeared to be abandoned on county property, deputies requested a tow truck.

“Shockingly, the vehicle was unlocked,” the p

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