Nah!  After he crawled very, very carefully from his sleeping bag and was handcuffed it turned out the stolen 'car' actually came back to a New York motorcycle.  Some minimum wage clerk had transposed the letters and digits.

He and his buddy had already spent two days in jail in Arizona because of that clerk.   

Fortunately, he did what was asked of him and kept his hands in sight and made no sudden moves, therefore he lived.