Enon, Kentucky–Two Weakley County residents have been arrested in connection with the theft of catalytic converters from a Graves County Church. And Graves County Sheriff’s deputies said the truck they used in the theft was stolen from McKenzie.
The Graves County Sheriff’s Office has been investigating the theft of catalytic converters from a Graves County Church, Enon Baptist Church located on Ky Hwy 339 West.
Earlier this week, sheriff’s detectives were able to identify the pickup truck captured on video surveillance as belonging to a man in Carroll County Tennessee near the town of McKenzie.
Sheriff Hayden and Detective Seaton interviewed the man at his home on Wednesday and learned that the vehicle had been taken from him fraudulently which is under investigation by the Carroll County Tennessee Sheriff’s Office. The woman in possession of the man’s truck was identified Wednesday as being 34 year old Letia Leco, with addresses in Graves and Marshall County, as well as counties in northwest Tennessee. Leco was found to have numerous outstanding arrest warrants out of Graves, Marshall, and Lyon Counties.
The vehicle was identified as being a 2016 Ram Rebel pickup truck, dark gray in color bearing Tennessee registration, which matches the vehicle captured on surveillance cameras in Graves County.
Information was broadcast to all area law enforcement agencies in the known areas to be on the lookout for this vehicle.
Late this morning, the Weakley County Tennessee Sheriff’s Office based off of the information provided, located the Ram pickup in the Greenfield community, occupied by a male and female.
Both were taken into custody and identified as both of the suspects in the Graves County church theft. Graves detectives went to the Weakley Co. Sheriff’s Office and interview both suspects. Both confessed trespassing on the property belonging to Enon Baptist Church, and stealing the catalytic converters off of a church van parked there, this past weekend. Replacement cost for the equipment stolen, exceeded $3,600 dollars.
The suspects were identified as being:
1) Leco, Letia M. 36 years of age
of Weakley County Tennessee
2) Flowers, Richard 32 years of age
Of Weakley County Tennessee
The investigation revealed that the suspects were selling the stolen catalytic converters and actually were in possession of some stolen ones at the time of their arrest in Weakley County.
The Graves County Sheriff’s Office will extradite the suspects back to Kentucky following extradition proceedings at a later date.
Leco will be facing theft charges on 15 outstanding Graves County Warrants, for things including theft, and bail jumping, and others from Marshall and Lyon County., Ky.
Both Leco and Flowers will be facing charges of Felony Theft and Criminal Trespass related to the thefts from Enon Baptist Church in southern Graves County.
This investigation is ongoing.