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Douglas County law officers identify truck; no crime committed

Tue, 12/20/2011 - 1:48pm | The News-Gazette
Douglas County truck
Photo by: Douglas County sheriff's office
The truck Douglas County sheriff's office is seeking after it stopped at a rural home on Monday morning. 

Douglas County officials have learned that a pickup truck spotted at a rural home in northwest Douglas County Monday morning was not involved in any criminal activity as they initially suspected.

The sheriff’s office said the truck, with out-of-state license plates, stopped at the home about 10:30 a.m. in northwest Douglas County, about two miles south of the Champaign County line and about three miles east of the Piatt County line.

The residents of the home did not know the men in the truck, who tried to open a locked shed door, according to the sheriff’s office.

Because of several recent rural burglaries, the sheriff's office put out a plea to the public to find this truck and its occupants. They received several calls and learned that the occupants were affiliated with a seed company and not involved in anything sinister.

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Herb wrote on December 19, 2011 at 8:12 pm

Ok, so if we see a truck we're to call the police. Got it.


 


Maybe a description would be nice? I'm sure there is more than one truck in Douglas County.

lightenupfrancis wrote on December 19, 2011 at 9:12 pm

Much better to make snarky comments than to look at the digital photograph of the black  4 wheel drive truck with out of state plates eh?

 

diberard wrote on December 19, 2011 at 9:12 pm

See the picture

Herb wrote on December 19, 2011 at 10:12 pm

My point is that the story needs to include the full information. The photo isn't included in the mobile version, I didn't even know the story included a photo until I came here on a regular computer.

Mike Howie wrote on December 19, 2011 at 11:12 pm
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Thanks for the comment. That's a good point. We need to work on that.

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Herb wrote on December 20, 2011 at 1:12 am

Thanks Mike, please do. Without the photo (as it is in the mobile version of this story) it appears to be an incomplete piece of journalism. With the photo, of course, things make much more sense.

Mike wrote on December 20, 2011 at 9:12 am

I'm certainly no truck expert (but somewhat good with Google?)... Late model Chevy Silverado 2500 HD crew cab?

http://www.autosbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2011-Chevrolet-Silver...

The wheels aren't the same, but on Chevy's web site they do offer similar five spoke (?) wheels similar to the picture with the story. I think the red/white (gray) Z71 on the rear is a dead giveaway--right spot, right colors.

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