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RACINE — A judge ordered a Racine woman on Tuesday to serve time on probation for taking a man’s pickup truck for a test drive and then selling it instead.

Retired Racine County Circuit Judge Dennis Costello, who was filling in on Tuesday for another judge, ordered Holly R. Bankenbush, 30, to spend one year on probation for the 2012 theft.

Bankenbush, formerly of Caledonia, pleaded no contest on July 1 to the sole theft count. The charge is a Class I felony, which typically is punishable by probation, a fine or a maximum of 1½ years behind bars.

She stole the 1996 Chevrolet Silverado on March 9, 2012. At about 1:20 p.m. she left in the pickup, which had been parked with a “for sale” sign on it in the Nuevo Vallarta restaurant’s parking lot, at 3700 Durand Ave., Racine, according to her criminal complaint. She said she wanted to drive the truck around the block for a test drive. But Bankenbush sold the pickup to Sturtevant Auto Salvage to be junked, according to Racine police.

About a week later, on March 17, an officer found the truck at Sturtevant Auto Salvage, 2145 N. East Frontage Road, in Mount Pleasant, according to police reports.