LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Police in southern Indiana have arrested a New Albany man and charged him with 10 counts of felony theft.

According to a news release from the Indiana State Police post in Sellersburg, 39-year-old Arthur "Artie" Fowler was arrested Tuesday after an investigation that began late in 2011 on a complaint received by Indiana State Police from Clark County.

Police say Fowler, who was supposed to beĀ acting as a buying agent for a car dealership in northern Indiana, was stealing money he received from the dealer to buy in southern Indiana.

According to the complaint, Fowler purchased and re-sold the vehicles but did not send the money back to the car dealer in northern Indiana.

Fowler was being held in the Clark County Jail.

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