Thief With Expensive Taste Takes Saddles From Tack Room

Someone entered a tack room in the 3200 block of South Assembly Road between 8:30 and 10:30 a.m. last Thursday and took two saddles worth $2,400.

The owner told sheriff’s deputies he left the tack room unlocked.

He was expecting some friends to come by and pick up items from the room. Instead, someone made off with the saddles.

The man told sheriff’s deputies that whoever stole the saddles took the most expensive ones.

Garage theft reported on Sterling

An unsecured garage was the target of theft in the 19000 block of West Sterling Road.

The theft occurred sometime between 6:30 a.m. May 12 and 4:40 p.m. May 14.

The owner, a state Department of Corrections officer, told sheriff’s deputies a Craftsman socket set, a circular saw, and a Black and Decker drill were taken.

The owner estimated the value of the items at $400.

Computer equipment stolen

More than $13,000 in computer equipment was taken from Johnson Controls Inc. at 1600 Flight Drive. Several days later, however, some of the missing equipment turned up in a remote field near Spotted Road.

Police were told that someone had knocked out an office window using a large rock sometime between 7 p.m. May 11 and 6 a.m. May 12.

Interior office equipment and cubicles were missing. Keyboards, laser-jet printers, two computers, a laptop computer, a 27-inch color television set and a monitor were also taken.

A few days later, sheriff’s deputy Dick Badick discovered some of the property in a flooded field near Spotted Road, a half-mile south of West Bow. The equipment was found in 3 to 4 feet of water.

“It was so flooded we called out divers,” said sheriff’s spokesman Dave Reagan.

Anyone having any information about the incident is asked to call Crime Check at 456-2233. All calls are anonymous.

, DataTimes