HEAVY MACHINERY RECOVERED One Arrested In Theft Ring
Reported by: Teresa Higginbotham
Web Producer: Bethany Simmons
Reported: Mar. 9, 2010 10:46 PM EST
Updated: Mar. 9, 2010 10:53 PM EST
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A Kentucky man is busted in a string of heavy machinery thefts that spanned across two states. Carter County, Kentucky deputies arrested 61 year old John Buckner last Saturday on two counts of receiving stolen property.
Deputies recovered two semi's, two box trailers, three bulldozers, three dump trucks, a small farm tractor, a grader, and an excavator. The estimated value of the stolen equipment is between seven hundred and one million dollars.
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