TOPEKA (KSNT) – A Colorado man is facing charges after driving a car through the garage door at a Topeka car dealership, deputies say.

In the upper left corner of the image, a car driving through a garage door is caught on security cameras. (Courtesy Photo/Capital City Nissan)

Rider J. Leppin, 27, of Colorado, is facing felony criminal damage, theft and burglary charges after deputies say they found him in a stolen car.

Just before midnight on Wednesday, the cleaning crew at Capital City Nissan alerted police that the business was broken into. It appeared one of the vehicles inside the showroom had been driven through one of the garage doors.

A man attempting to steal a vehicle from Topeka car dealership did thousands of dollars of damage driving through a garage door to escape. (Courtesy Photo/Capital City Nissan)

Later in the early morning hours of Thursday, deputies from the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office went to the 6800 block of SE Evans, near Forbes Field, after receiving a call about a suspicious vehicle. According to the sheriff’s office, they found the car that was taken and it was occupied by Leppin.