A Saturday call for police assistance near 39th Avenue SW and SW Austin Street led officers to a stolen Subaru with a damaged ignition, according to a Seattle Police report.

Police were headed to the area around 11:45 a.m. after a caller asked for a standby while trying to recover a stolen phone that was said to be tracking nearby. Before officers arrived, another person reported a suspicious occupied vehicle near SW Austin Street and Glenridge Way SW.

There, officers found a green Subaru with a plate that had been reported stolen. The Subaru itself had also been reported stolen, and police found extensive ignition damage with most of the ignition assembly missing, the report says.

Police said the driver told them he had borrowed the car from a friend, noticed the damaged ignition, and used a small tool to start it anyway. Officers arrested him on suspicion of possessing a stolen motor vehicle.

The Subaru's registered owner was notified, and the vehicle was impounded at the owner's request. Police also arrested two other people at the scene on unrelated charges. The man arrested in the stolen-vehicle case was booked into King County Jail, and court records show a previous case involving a similar allegation that was later reduced to a lesser charge.