{"id":813767,"date":"2019-08-30T13:31:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T18:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=813767"},"modified":"2019-08-31T16:47:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T21:47:35","slug":"authorities-bust-power-tool-theft-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=813767","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Bust Power Tool Theft Ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/08\/image-162x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-813770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/08\/image-162x200.png 162w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2019\/08\/image.png 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/>WISE COUNTY &#8212; A power tool theft ring with links to East Texas is busted, and more than a dozen people are arrested. Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin says late last year and early this year, three hardware stores south of Decatur were burglarized &#8212; and his investigators were able to track down the bad guys.  Akin says, &#8220;They were able to connect a group of folks in East Dallas to burglaries all over North Texas.&#8221; And those places included Marshall and Tyler. Wise County sheriff&#8217;s deputies teamed up with Mesquite police and DPS in raiding a warehouse where they had stored all that equipment. Akin continues, &#8220;They were selling that on social media.&#8221; In all, they seized more than $100,000 worth of stolen power tools. Ten people are now in jail, and four more have been turned over to ICE. Akin says one store was able to recover $40,000 in stolen equipment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WISE COUNTY &#8212; A power tool theft ring with links to East Texas is busted, and more than a dozen people are arrested. Wise County Sheriff Lane Akin says late last year and early this year, three hardware stores south of Decatur were burglarized &#8212; and his investigators were able to track down the bad &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=813767\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Authorities Bust Power Tool Theft Ring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":813770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-813767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-06 08:32:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=813767"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":813773,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813767\/revisions\/813773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/813770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}