A twenty-five-year-old Griffin, Georgia woman had been arrested for allegedly stealing a Kubota excavator valued at $28,000 from the Home Depot on Hicks Drive in Rome.

According to the arrest warrants:

Deja Latyce Favors rented the equipment back on Feb. 16.

The excavator was later sold and then later recovered by police on a used car lot in White County, Tennessee.

Favors is charged with theft by taking and theft by conversion.

WRGA