Friday morning was an eventful one for 29-year-old Victor Flores of Fremont, according to Fremont police.

Flores first drew the attention of two police officers about 6:38 a.m., when the pair was dispatched to the 3600 block of Norfolk Road for a car accident, police said.

The two officers confronted Flores at the scene and found that he had been driving on a suspended license, according to police, who issued a citation for the violation and had the car towed.

Flores then made his way about 3.5 miles northwest of the scene of the accident to the Fremont Hub shopping center, where he stole a FedEx truck, police report.

The two FedEx employees responsible for the truck told police that they left the truck running at 10:54 a.m. while they went into a business at the Fremont Hub.

While in the store, they heard the whir of the engine and ran outside only to see the truck being driven south through the parking lot and away from the shopping center, police said.

The truck had a GPS tracker, but one of the FedEx workers had brought it into the store with him, making the tracker useless for catching the thief, he told police.

But the truck was a conspicuous choice of vehicle to steal, and it didn't stay missing for long — about 40 minutes later, police said, a local Good Samaritan found it unoccupied and idling at an apartment complex just south of the shopping center. Oddly, it appeared no packages were taken from the truck.

About 30 minutes later, a resident on Margery Drive called to report that a man matching Flores' description knocked on her door asking to use her phone.

The officers arrived and recognized Flores from the accident scene earlier in the morning.

"This time," police said in a statement, "he received a ride to jail."

Filipa Ioannou is an SFGATE staff writer. Email her at fioannou@sfchronicle.com and follow her on Twitter