Austin police are looking for a man who drove away from an H-E-B store with a motorized shopping cart and abandoned it about four blocks away.

An Austin police officer sits at a motorized shopping cart that was reported stolen from an H-E-B in East Austin and recovered Wednesday afternoon. Photo: Austin Police Department.

Police received a call at 2:01 p.m. from the 7100 block of Ed Bluestein Blvd. southbound service road, where officers were told that a man stole one of the stores motorized carts.

Officers found the cart about half an hour later in the middle of the road about four blocks north, but the thief had fled, police said.

Motorized shopping carts can cost from $600 to several thousands of dollars, according to online retailers.



Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact police.

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