“Whether he was watching them on TV and decided to target the place, at this point we can’t say,” Howard said.

Davis was traveling with a girlfriend who has a family connection in Greeley, the deputy said. The woman has not been arrested in the case.

A Greeley resident reported to authorities that he saw a green sedan with in-transit plates pulling out of the Foltz driveway sometime around 5 p.m. Saturday, the deputy said. The man arrested on the Interstate early Sunday was driving a dark green 1998 Buick Regal, he added.

Both Foltz and a representative of the company doing the highway construction work identified items recovered from the car, authorities said.

It’s not the first time that Davis has run into trouble in Nebraska. A check of court records showed that he was convicted of DUI and of having no valid registration in York County in 1997. At the time, he was 18 and reported a home address of Bagley, Minnesota.

As they did when news broke in July of Sam Foltz’s death in a car wreck, friends and strangers offered to help the Foltz family recover from the loss of $1,400 in property. In a statement Tuesday, Jordan Foltz and his wife, Marissa, extended their thanks to the law enforcement officers working the case.