Terry Phipps (Source: Nacogdoches County Jail)
Celeste Andrade (Source: Nacogdoches County Jail)NACOGDOCHES, TX (KTRE) -
Judge
Campbell Cox II of the 145th Judicial District Court in Nacogdoches sentenced a
33-year-old Broaddus man to seven years in prison for his part in a farm
equipment theft incident in the Blackjack community near Chireno.
Terry Wayne
Phipps was booked back the Nacogdoches County Jail on two state jail felony
charges of theft between $1,500 and $20,000 on Thursday.
Phipps
and his accomplice, Celeste Andrade, also of Broaddus, were arrested by deputy
constables from the Pct. 4 Constable's Office on Jan. 23.
Pct. 4
Constable Jason Bridges said that his office received a report of a theft in
progress in the Blackjack community. A neighbor spotted a suspicious vehicle
entering a nearby property. Then the people from the pickup were seen loading
equipment into the bed of their truck.
The
neighbor then called the property owner to verify who was on the land. When the
neighbor attempted to confront the two suspects as they were leaving the
property, but they fled the scene.
Phipps
and Andrade were later stopped on Highway 21 by a deputy constable from Bridges'
office. Bridges said that their pickup was loaded down with farm equipment.
Most of the equipment was still functional.
"They
were apparently taking these items to a scrap yard to sell as scrap metal," a
press release stated.
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