Rochester Woman Sentenced for Stealing Then Ramming Vehicle

Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News)- A Rochester woman has been given the chance to avoid prison for damaging a stolen vehicle. 

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She was convicted by an Olmsted County jury at the end of a trial in August. The vehicle theft and property damage occurred earlier this year.

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Rochester Woman Ordered to Pay Restitution for Vehicle Theft and Property Damage

45-year-old Christina Marie Sievert was arrested in April and charged with felony motor vehicle theft and first-degree property damage. The jury found her guilty on both counts. 

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Rochester police responded to a report of a stolen vehicle at a bar along North Broadway on February 16. The criminal complaint in the case says the vehicle had been left running outside the bar.

Shortly after responding to the theft report, Rochester police were dispatched to a suspicious vehicle call on Civic Center Drive Northwest. Responding officers found the stolen vehicle abandoned at that location. 

Surveillance videos recorded at the apartment complex show the stolen car, driven by Sievert, ramming into a parked vehicle four times, the charges say. 

Sievert was then seen returning on foot to the bar where the car had been stolen and getting into a vehicle with Wisconsin license plates, which were traced to a residence in Holmen, the complaint said. 

The former Wisconsin woman was given a five-year stayed prison sentence. She’s also ordered to pay $5,665.53 in restitution.