CLARK COUNTY — A local business has warned its neighbors after their barn was broken into earlier this week.
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As reported on News Center 7 at 6:00, the owners of Whitetail Lodge said that a man broke into a barn early Tuesday morning.
They say the man stole a truck, a gun, and gas.
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The owners told News Center 7’s Malik Patterson that they informed the Clark County Sheriff’s Office of what happened.
They shared security camera video with News Center 7 on Saturday.
The video shows a masked man walking onto the lodge’s back patio. After peeking inside the window, he looks at the camera and proceeds to push it up.
Robert Laughlin, the owner’s son, told Patterson that the man disappeared out of camera view for an hour.
During that time, they found out what he may have been doing.
“We had fuel tanks in the back that we used for maintenance on,” said Laughlin. “He had popped the pump off the top of the fuel tank, took some buckets.”
They also found the barn door was dented and pried open.
Laughlin said that he not only took his dad’s truck.
The owners eventually recovered the truck, but said something inside was missing.
“There was also a firearm in the vehicle at the time,” he said.
When asked to know that a man could be walking around with a gun that is not his. Laughlin said it’s scary.
“It’s scary enough that someone in our neighborhood and where we’re at was doing what they did and was on our property,” he said. “You know, it’s something that we definitely wouldn’t want them to have.”
Patterson said that the lodge is now going through almost $10,000 in security upgrades.
News Center 7 has contacted the Clark County Sheriff’s Office about this incident.
We will continue to update this story.
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