Farm outbuildings target of thefts

Multiple thefts occurred in rural areas of Cheyenne County in the past two weeks.

Cheyenne County sheriff John Jenson urges residents to be on the look-out for any suspicious activity. The sheriff’s office is currently investigating five incidents, which recently occurred at abandoned farmsteads and outbuildings. Items taken from these locations included power tools, miscellaneous hand tools, electrical wiring, pipe and small farm equipment.

Jenson asked the community to watch for suspicious vehicles, persons or activity particularly in rural areas of the county.

Two other tool thefts have taken place in Sidney in the past month. These included a theft of tools, equipment and a vehicle at the city street department building in December, as well as a tool and equipment theft at the construction site of the Lodgepole Creek apartment complex last weekend.

Law enforcement officers don’t have enough information to tie these crimes together definitively.

“There are similarities,” Jenson said. “But not enough to say they’re linked.”

Jenson asks anyone with information to contact the Cheyenne County sheriff’s office at 254-2922, Sidney police department at 254-5515 or Crime Stoppers at 254-3344.