Lufkin Police officers arrested
three local men on theft charges Tuesday after a railroad employee spotted one
of them acting suspiciously around the railroad tracks in the vicinity of 700
N. First Street and officers caught them stealing railroad spikes and other
items.
"A railroad employee saw a black
male around the tracks at 3:35 p.m., and thought he was stealing stuff," Lt.
David Young of the Lufkin Police Department said. "Officers found three men
there stealing buckets of railroad spikes and metal plates and putting them in
a van parked near the tracks."
Lufkin residents Ray Garcia, 50,
L.P. Lewis, 53, and Edwardo Reyes, 45, were all arrested at the scene, charged
with theft of property between $1,500 and $20,000, and transported to the
Angelina County Jail. No bond has been set for any of the three suspects at
this time.
When LPD officers responded to
the call, they allegedly found the three men loading the stolen railroad
property into a Chrysler minivan parked near the intersection of Maple and Ash
streets. The men were allegedly found to be in possession of a train tow chain
valued at $2,000 and two buckets full of "metal rail anchors and tie plates."
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Ray Garcia (Source: Angelina County Jail)
L.P. Lewis (Source: Angelina County Jail)
Edwardo Reyes (Source: Angelina County Jail)
