The Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office was called to investigate the theft of a vehicle on Talliferro Springs Road in Lyerly earlier this month.  According to a report released this week by the sheriff’s office, on March 5th, a responding deputy met with Justin Pettyjohn who said that the day before he had left for work around 7 AM and when he returned home that afternoon a gold Saturn vehicle was missing from the residence.  Pettyjohn identified an East Ridge, Tennessee woman who had stayed at the residence the night before and was there when he left.  When he returned home, the woman and the vehicle were missing.  Pettyjohn told the deputy that he and the woman are “just friends”, but his friend would not answer his calls concerning the whereabouts of the vehicle.  The vehicle was entered into the statewide database as being stolen.