McDowell County authorities have arrested a man accused of stealing a vehicle they said belonged to another man who was found dead not long after being reported missing.
In a press release, the McDowell County Sheriff’s Office said deputies and the U.S. Marshals Service took 48-year-old Scotty Styles into custody after officers with the Black Mountain Police Department provided information that Styles was operating the vehicle of DeAndre Clark on April 23rd in Black Mountain.
22-year-old Clark was reported missing on April 18th. On April 22nd, McDowell County deputies discovered Clark’s body behind an abandoned business on Batcave Road in the Old Fort community.
Scotty Styles was issued a $20,000 secured bond. No other connection between Styles and Clark was mentioned in the sheriff’s office’s release, but the department added that the investigation surrounding the circumstances of Clark’s death is still under investigation.
