Sunday afternoon at 3:30, the Clarkson Police Officer Dylan Bohn and Grayson County Special Deputy Mark Stanton responded to a farm in the 3200 block of Elizabethtown Road on the report of two suspects stealing lumber off a barn.
According to Bohn, a farmer’s son arrived at the property, secluded well off the roadway, to check on his father’s soybean crop. The son observed vehicle tracks in the field and followed the tracks to his father’s barn where he saw two men, 34-year-old Clint Clauss, of Leitchfield, and 34-year-old Tristan Berryman, of Clarkson, removing lumber off the barn.
The son notified police and upon arriving on the scene, Bohn and Stanton also witnessed the two suspects stealing lumber off the barn. Bohn said the two men removed between $5,000 and $8,000 worth of lumber.
After the property owner was notified and told police the men did not have permission to be on his property, both men were arrested and charged with felony theft by unlawful taking (over $500, less than $10,000), first-degree criminal mischief (also a class D felony) and two counts of criminal trespassing.
Both suspects are lodged in the Grayson County Detention Center.
(Headline photo: Clint Clauss)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com or 270-259-6000
