July 31, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
A man was caught stealing gas from a truck last week in Dowelltown.
48 year old Bradley Kent Cotter of Sims Street, Dowelltown is charged with theft of property and vandalism under $500. Cotter’s bond is $7,000 and his court date is August 9.
Sheriff Patrick Ray said that on Wednesday, July 25 a deputy was dispatched to the parking lot of the Dowelltown Post Office where someone reported seeing a suspicious person under a truck that was for sale.
When the officer arrived the man, Cotter was still under the truck. The deputy discovered that Cotter had cut a hole in the fuel filter tube and had a piece of garden hose running through the hole extending to the gas tank.