Fb Ad Lands Alleged Tailgate Bandit Behind Bars
WHITE HOUSE: (Smokey Barn Information) – A stolen tailgate seems in a Fb ad simply hours after authorities are notified of the theft. Inside simply 4 hours a person is in custody and the tailgate is returned to its house owners.
It began when Rebecca and Antoine Eddings of White Home posted their truck on the market on Fb and (for added measure) the truck was parked out by the street with a on the market signal. By morning the truck’s tailgate was gone.
After parking the truck out by the street Wednesday evening the Eddings’ got here inside and went to mattress. When morning arrived it was Mr. Eddings that will make the invention that the tailgate of his 2014 Chevrolet Silverado had been stolen proper from his personal entrance garden.
The Eddings’ estimated the tailgates worth at about $1500 as a consequence of it having a backup digicam. The couple advised police that they had no thought who might have taken the tailgate.
Rebecca and Antoine did report the theft to authorities however they advised Smokey Barn Information that that they had little hope of ever seeing the tailgate once more.
“We thought the tailgate was gone eternally,” stated Mrs. Eddings. However on the off probability that it could possibly be discovered, she posted in regards to the theft on her Fb web page and shared it on Hip White Home.
Inside minutes of her publish, Rebecca acquired many messages, together with one from an nameless good samaritan on Instantaneous Messanger that stated: “name me.” He was fairly certain he had seen the tailgate listed for $275 on Fb Market.
The silver tailgate with the gold Chevrolet emblem beneath the deal with and a walker vendor sticker made the tailgate simple for the Eddings’ to establish they usually knew that they had a match.
The Robertson County Sheriff’s Workplace leaped into motion and obtained the situation of the alleged vendor, now recognized as Youree Jones, 31, of Hendersonville, in Gallatin, in keeping with the incident report obtained by Smokey Barn Information. The Gallatin Police Division was suggested and a gathering was organized to see the tailgate. In response to the report, when police arrived and questioned Mr. Jones he stated that he was driving via White Home and seen the truck on the market. Jones stated he had a buddy who wanted a tailgate and he was going to provide it to him. Mr. Jones then advised police that he put the tailgate up on the market on Fb, the report said.
The overall elapsed time from reporting the theft to the restoration of the tailgate? About 4 hours. It was throughout earlier than lunchtime. The tailgate has since been reinstalled on the truck that’s as soon as once more on the market. Need to purchase it? Right here’s the hyperlink.
To the nameless good samaritan that reported the ad, the Eddings stated: “We very a lot respect his assist.”
To Deputy James Rippy and the Robertson County Sheriff’s Division, “We significantly respect all their laborious work shortly responding to our property theft and recovering our tailgate.”
Youree Jones, 31, of Hendersonville has been charged with Theft-Of-Property-Over-$1,000 and brought into custody. He was transported to the Robertson County Detention Facility in Springfield beneath a $3,500 bond.
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