Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe MADRID, S.C., Sept. 12 (UPI) -- A South Carolina woman may be rethinking her decision-making process after being arrested for stealing the car she drove to the courthouse to pay a ticket. Authorities arrested Amber Helton, 21, of Manning, and another person Tuesday outside the Clarendon County judicial complex where she went to pay a traffic ticket she had received Aug. 29, the day after the car was reported stolen in Tennessee, The (Sumter, S.C.) Item reported Wednesday. Both were charged with possession of a stolen vehicle. Advertisement "We were operating off of information from an unknown source that Helton would be driving a stolen car when we went to the magistrate's office," Clarendon County Chief Deputy Joe Bradham said. It was Helton's third arrest in less than a month, the newspaper reported. One arrest involved stolen copper but in the other she was charged with possession of a stolen license tag and driving without a driver's license. She got off on the tag count but was found guilty on the driver's license charge. "I guess she thought ‘Hey, I got away with having a stolen tag. I might get away with the entire car,’" Bradham said. Advertisement
