BARTLESVILLE, Okla. - The Washington County Sheriff's Office has been investigating a recent rash of scrap metal thefts occurring in rural parts of the county.
“This stealing of junk cars has become a real issue,” he told 2News Wednesday morning, saying the price of scrap metal is high and because of this “junkers” are making money.
Stolen from properties in rural areas around the county and in adjoining counties have been a number of broken down junk cars. Scrappers have been trespassing unto property, loading up cars, then heading off to the scrapyard where they will leave the cars for cash.
Johnson said the sheriff's office took a report Tuesday of two such vehicles stolen off a piece of land just off of U.S. Highway 75 off 3600 Road in the southern part of the county.
Last Friday, such a vehicle was taken from a property in rural Vera.
A deputy driving in that section of the county, seeing an abandoned car on the side of the road without wheels and finding the scene suspicious upon closer inspection found the car had been dragged from a nearby burned out house. He called a wrecker to pick the car up, but by the time the wrecker showed up, the car had already been taken.
Contacting the owner of the house, the deputy learned permission had not been given to anybody to take the car.
Investigators later were able to track the car to a scrapyard where they watched video surveillance and they identified a possible suspect.
“We have a person of interest in mind and the matter is under investigation,” said Johnson. He believes the three recent thefts may all be linked to the same person, he said.
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