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WATERLOO -- A Waterloo man was arrested after he allegedly stole a vehicle equipped with a GPS navigation service.

The vehicle was taken from Community Builders, 1127 Jefferson St., sometime Thursday, said Capt. Bruce Arends with the Waterloo Police Department.

After the theft was discovered, officials with the On Star service contacted police and gave them the location of the vehicle using the satellite tracking device.

The vehicle was stopped at South Hackett Road and Field Street, and Zachary James Allen Berger, 19, was in a front passenger seat, court records state. Police later determined he was the one who took the vehicle, records state.

Berger, of 1245 South St., No. 3, was arrested for first-degree theft.

Police later arrested a second person for stealing a ring from a box at Community Builders in an unrelated case.

Kahlan Bradford, 28, of Reinbeck, was arrested Thursday for first-degree theft. He allegedly took a diamond ring valued at more than $10,000 from a lock box sometime between Aug. 25 and Thursday, records state.

He later took the ring to a pawn shop in an attempt to get a loan, records state.

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