A 23-year-old Columbia man, Nathaniel J. Conant, was arrested Sunday after he allegedly went for a joy ride in a Volkswagen Passat on Norm Stewart Court inside Mizzou Arena.
University of Missouri police were dispatched around 7:15 a.m. to investigate a report of property damage.
“Through investigation, we were able to determine that just after 4 a.m. a vehicle was driven through a closed gate on the south side of Mizzou Arena and then went through a garage door in the back dock area,” MUPD spokesman, Maj. Brian Weimer, told The Star.
Several golf carts also were damaged before the driver drove onto the basketball court inside the arena and exited through the same dock entrance.