A Butler County auto repair shop owner has been arrested and faces charges for taking a customer's car for repairs and using it.

The shop, Oilology, is right off Route 228 in Cranberry Township. The owner and mechanic, Keith Smith, now faces charges after allegedly taking in a customer's vehicle to fix, failing to make the repairs over several months, and also lending it out to others during that time.

According to the criminal complaint, the customer dropped off his 2011 Suzuki for repairs in June. Police say Smith, who has eight prior convictions for unauthorized use of vehicles, claimed he was working on it.

"I did expect him to do this as a friend of mine. That's where the trust was, and I kept giving him the benefit of the doubt, hoping he might have changed last time, but he didn'

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