Rapid City woman given deferred sentence for stealing pickup

A Rapid City woman has been given a deferred sentence for a felony count of theft after taking a pickup that had been left running in a parking lot in Beulah. Oksana Brush pled no contest to the charge.

On November 21, a Crook County Sheriff’s Office deputy received a report of a stolen pickup. The witness informed the deputy that he saw a female, later identified as Oksana Brush, walking down the frontage road.

She allegedly came up to the window of his pickup and asked if she “could stay on his couch, it would save her life.” The witness reported that he declined her request and she walked away.

The witness then allegedly witnessed a white pickup that he recognized as belonging to a person he knew speed out of the parking lot. The witness told the deputy that he ran into the store and found the owner, who confirmed there was nobody in his pickup and he had left it running in the parking lot. The two men called 911 to report that it had been stolen.

A Wyoming Highway Patrol was able to locate the vehicle near mile marker 88 on I-90. The vehicle was stopped and confirmed as stolen, and Brush was detained.

Brush was given a deferred sentence by Judge Matthew F.G Castano and ordered to serve three years of supervised probation. She was also ordered to pay $1001.05 in restitution to the vehicle’s owner.