The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 20, 2006 Page: 4 of 36
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THURSDAY 2D APRIL 2DDG
NEWS PAGE
THE CANADIAN RECDRD
County Sheriffs Office recovers stolen oilfield
equipment, charges Oklahoma man with theft
The Hemphill County Sheriffs Office last
week recovered over $2,500 worth of oilfield
equipment reported stolen from several job
sites in Hemphill County two weekends ago,
and arrested a suspect in the thefts.
James Thomas Harris, 24, of Rocky, Okla-
homa, was arrested and charged Monday with
theft of property valued at more than $1,500
and less than $20,000, a state jail felony.
Harris had been questioned early last week
by Hemphill County Sheriff Gary Henderson
and Chief Deputy Morse Burroughs, and ad-
mitted then to having taken some chain and
a tube of lube. He later decided to cooperate
with investigators and contacted the Sheriffs
Office Thursday afternoon to say he wanted to
get it straight.
Harris admitted at that time to having
taken the missing items and hidden them at
a location just inside the Roberts County line.
He agreed to show law enforcement officers
the location of the stolen equipment, which
was recovered and returned to the three com-
panies—Bobby Joe Cudd Bobcat, New Park
Drilling Fluids, Inc., and BJ Services—from
whose locations they were taken.
The thefts were first discovered a week ago
Monday, when reports began to come into the
Sheriffs Office that several items had been
stolen from job sites in the southwest corner
of Hemphill County near Mendota Ranch.
Oilfield tools, pumps, flashlights, chains and
various other equipment had been taken from
several leases in that area.
Henderson said Chief Deputy Burroughs
developed Harris as a suspect in the thefts.
He was contacted and voluntarily reported to
the SO to discuss the case. During extensive
questioning, Harris admitted having taken
the chain and lube which an oilfield worker had
reported having seen in the back of his pickup.
Three days later, he turned himself in to law
enforcement officials here, and agreed to help
them recover the equipment.
Nearly all of the stolen items were recov-
ered, Henderson said, and returned to their
This stolen chain helped local law enforcement
officials break a recent theft case when it was
spotted in the back of the suspect 's pickup truck
by an oilfield worker
The Hemphill County Sheriff's Office recovered
and returned over $2,500 worth of stolen oilfield
equipment last week when a suspect admitted
the theft and led them to this cache.
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Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 116, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 20, 2006, newspaper, April 20, 2006; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth220728/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.