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Freestone County Sheriff’s Report
Man on FM-1848 calls to advise he has a nearly brand new 4-Wheeler parked in his driveway, just discovered…. and has no idea how it got there. Dep. Robert Elom investigates and gets to the bottom of the deal….Another individual had handled a repair transaction for yet another party who is the owner. The 4-Wheeler had been taken to another county for those repairs, it was fixed, then delivered back….But to the wrong address! All straightened out now. Officer Keathley to Pease Street on report of swimming pool assaulted. Huh? Yep, an above ground pool, someone stuck a knife in it. Lady gone from home several days, returns to find padlock cut and many items missing, Dep. Elom to same. Dep. Harrison to report of stolen puppy on S. FM- 80….He didn’t get the puppy back, as that will have to be decided by a Judge due to conflicting tales and paperwork, but he did recover a pickup reported stolen out of Limestone County, abandoned, with the parties involved identification papers. All information shared with Mexia PD and Limestone Co. SO. Man arrested by Dep. Barrentine and Hendrix after weekend shooting spree, flavored with a goodly mix of alcohol. Firearms and alcohol….. Always a recipe for disaster….Just like water and oil….They just don’t mix. Man with pistol reported at downtown Teague building. TPD Officers and Deputies headed to same. He was disarmed, apparently upset due to a Lady moving out. I have received information that David Copeland of Lanely has been out, wading in the mud, in his sock feet! Now I heard this from another source, and so I’m not exactly certain that I got it all correct…..But the gist of the deal was this; David works in the oil field and made a call at a local well site. He pulled his boots off at the door so as not to track up the floor, went inside, conducted his business, then stepped back outside…. But right here is where the plot thickened….David’s boots, that he’d just pulled off minutes before, were missing, vanished, totally disappeared. Now, this being the oil field, and David realizing that none in the oil field would stoop to any type of highjinks, merriment, or dirty trick just for fun, quickly ruled out the possibility that any hard working, two-fisted oil field man would have pulled so heinous a crime on another…..Well, I may have fudged on that part there….He may not have ruled them out all that quick! At any rate, while the derrick hands laughed, ribbed him a bit, and elbowed one another in the sides, David, as nonchalantly as humanly possible strolled across the road toward his vehicle in ankle deep red mud. He tried to do this in an entirely unobtrusive manner, not wishing to draw any added attention to himself….I think this probably worked very fine until his left sock slipped over his heel. He was unsure whether, at this point, to turn and attempt to retrieve the sock from whence it was buried up, or just continue his stroll….. Nonchalantly, of course, both hands in his pockets, rolling his eyes ever so slowly, whistling a little tune….. But now, the story takes another unexpected twist…. David finds out that a large dog walked by while he was inside conducting his business, sniffed on those leather work boots caked with fresh mud and carried them toward the tree line at a slow trot. He would have traveled faster, but he carried too great a load in his mouth. Upon spotting the fresh dog tracks, David felt somewhat guilty that he had contemplated the thought that others in the oil field might have stooped to pulling this type of prank on him. Feeling thoroughly ashamed of himself and guilty of having thoughts of this type, he got in his pickup and started his journey to town to purchase a new pair of boots. Now ordinarily this little saga would end right here….But had David glanced to the right, while driving and making his exit, in the briars growing at the end of the cattle guard he crossed over, he might have spotted two freshly emptied cans of Ken-L-Ration dog food, plus one large tin, also empty, but equally fresh, of King Olav of Norway sardines….They tell me that when either, or both of these are placed in any type of receptacle, like an old leather boot, dogs find it most enticing! Say….You don’t think one of those derrick hands would have emptied those cans into either one of those leather boots……. Naw, naw, they wouldn’t do that! Not in the Oil Field, certainly! Teague Lady calls, Baby just drank some Fabuloso…. Poison Control contacted. Good News….It is a soap only, nothing poisonous. Take his clothes off, put him in a tub of warm water….If anything is going to happen, it’ll be a problem in the south end!.....I can handle that! Yes, Ma’am. Deputy Barrentine to report of deer hunting equipment stolen…..Nope, removed by landowners…. Ain’t nobody supposed to be on that land owner says, and it is not presently leased for hunting to anyone. Deputy Willis stops driver on Hwy. 179, asks for insurance which requires the glove box to be opened; it falls open bringing into view 23 grams of Crystal Meth….To Jail, Controlled Substance. M y old, raggedy cell phone has died a natural death. I’ve tried every form of CPR known to resuscitate the thing, but I suppose it’s just played out. I don’t mind having to get another…. but transferring all of the numbers stored in it….. Well, that will be another story. Just like computers; relatively new items in all our lives; we have all become terribly dependent on them over the last 10-20 years. By the time you read this, according to the Weathermen, we’ll be in the middle of a week of rain. At least that is the prediction. We’ll sure open up and take every drop the Good Man Above sees fit to send our way. Summer is over, but remembrance of the drought, Burn Bans, etc., is not. Until Next Week….. RALPH BILLINGS |
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