Saturday, September 11, 2010
Thieves Make Off With Heavy Equipment
WEST VIRGINIA....
After a week of searching, Nitro Police are continuing to look for thieves who stole nearly $60,000 worth of equipment from the Elkview Kmart parking lot in broad daylight. Several witnesses and a Kmart employee thought the thieves were simply members of the construction crew working at the site as they made off with items including a red Ford F-450 dump truck, a Lone Wolf low-boy trailer and a rented Caterpillar 303 mini-excavator with brand new hydraulic hammer attachment on the front. Mark Stutler, the owner of RBS Construction, says the equipment was chained and padlocked together. Thursday morning, the charred remains of what is believed to be Stutler's dump truck were found on Buff Creek Road in the Clendenin area where it was apparently taken to be burned.
After a week of searching, Nitro Police are continuing to look for thieves who stole nearly $60,000 worth of equipment from the Elkview Kmart parking lot in broad daylight. Several witnesses and a Kmart employee thought the thieves were simply members of the construction crew working at the site as they made off with items including a red Ford F-450 dump truck, a Lone Wolf low-boy trailer and a rented Caterpillar 303 mini-excavator with brand new hydraulic hammer attachment on the front. Mark Stutler, the owner of RBS Construction, says the equipment was chained and padlocked together. Thursday morning, the charred remains of what is believed to be Stutler's dump truck were found on Buff Creek Road in the Clendenin area where it was apparently taken to be burned.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 7:35 AM 
