Fulton, Russellville group arrested after attempted farm equipment theft

Four men and women from Fulton and Russellville were arrested June 23-24 after a Stephens citizen came home to find them leaving with his farm equipment.

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The Callaway County Sheriff's Office received a report of

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Alan Lowe stands on the steps leading up to the House of Representatives in the state Capitol Tuesday in Little Rock. He and others searched the Capitol for ghosts Saturday night.

stealing in progress around 4:21 p.m. June 23 when a

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Tumaine Powell, 11, loads pinto beans while volunteering with Francois Jordan (left), 12, at the Arkansas Food Bank in Little Rock on Tuesday afternoon.

Stephens resident returned to his home on County Road 269

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Sen. Ted Stevens

just in time to find a truck hauling his farm machinery off of his property on a trailer. The resident pursued the suspect vehicle, which had turned east on County Road 266 from State Road DD before driving into a field with a blown tire.

Sheriff's deputies and troopers with the State Highway Patrol responded to the area, where they found Wendell S. Belisle, 37, of Fulton, hiding near the truck. Though a search of the area with the Highway Patrol's air unit did not locate any more suspects at that time, an overnight investigation lead to the arrest of John D. Belisle, 33 of Fulton, Angelia Clark, 41 of Russellville and Timothy Valdez, 48 of Fulton, near Calwood and Kingdom City.

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