Police: NC man steals plane, crashes it
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Authorities are looking to arrest a man they say stole an airplane from a North Carolina airport and crashed it before getting away.
The Alamance County Sheriff's Office said on Wednesday that 46-year-old Curtis Rene Mellott stole the single-engine Piper Saratoga from the Horace Williams Airport in Chapel Hill. They say he crashed it in the woods along a highway about 60 miles west of Raleigh.
One warrant charges Mellott of Chapel Hill with felonious larceny. Another charges him with felonious possession of stolen property.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The plane was stolen between 9 p.m. Monday and 6 a.m. Tuesday and investigators found blood in the cockpit
Mellott was still at large Wednesday afternoon.