WINONA, Minn. – Two months after an acquaintance offered to take a Winona woman’s car for a gas fill-up and never came back, the car has been found. It’s 180 miles away in New London, Wisconsin. Police are looking for the acquaintance — Baldemar Mendez-Lopez, 28, of Appleton, Wisconsin. They have a warrant for his arrest. The woman, a Spanish translator, said she met Mendez-Lopez as a client. In February he took the car supposedly for a local errand but left town instead. The woman said she communicated with the man for a month or so to return the car. When he broke off communication, she reported the vehicle stolen. Police in New London, northwest of Appleton, located the car.
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