Gogebic County Salvage Yard Theft
A traffic violation early this morning led to an arrest in Gogebic County.
The suspect is a 29-year-old man from Gile, Wisconsin.
He was pulled over for an equipment violation at Old County Road and Puritan Road in Bessemer Township.
A state trooper from the Wakefield Post noticed that the driver had a seven-foot-long piece of steel tubing sticking out of a broken window on his vehicle.
Police determined that the man had stolen items from a local salvage yard.
The suspect was arrested for larceny of property worth $200 to $1,000, which is a one-year felony.
He’s in the Gogebic County Jail awaiting arraignment.
Posted by: Mike Hoey