Columbus police arrested the former employee of a car lot after he was seen driving a muscle car around the lot early Sunday morning.

An officer was making an extra patrol shortly before 5 a.m. Sunday at a lot in the 2800 block of Merchant’s Mile, when he saw a red Chevy Camaro driving recklessly without headlights. The driver then backed into an open parking space and left the vehicle. The officer stopped the man and identified him as 22-year-old Justin Dampier of Columbus.

A manager at the car lot  said that Dampier was a former employee who did not have permission to be driving the car. He is facing a preliminary charge of auto theft.