Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Deputies Asked To Investigate Tuesday Theft
Deputies with the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department were asked to initiate an investigation on Tuesday after a resident discovered that some men had left her home in possession of a piece of her property.
The victim, age 66, reported that she had returned to her Brace Road, Summertown, home Sunday evening to find a note that had been left by an individual interested in acquiring a car she had sitting in her yard.
The victim told deputies that she called the number on the note and agreed to allow him to take ownership. She said that he asked to come that night to pick it up, but that she declined, saying that she wanted him to come in the daytime.
When the man and his two companions came the following day, she said they were unable to start the car. She allowed the men to use her jump box to start the car. They left soon afterward and she then discovered that her jump box was missing.
The victim said she had contacted the man and he said that once they arrived at their destination in Pulaski he would check to see if they had the box, then call her back.
She said she received no return call. In addition, she said that she had called the number several times since, but that it appeared that the phone was no longer in service.
The reporting deputy notes that he was later able to make contact with the man. He told the deputy that he did have the jump box and would drop it off at the sheriff’s department Friday morning.
