A search warrant was served on property located on Old County Road in Brookings, Wednesday, February 9th, by Curry County Sheriff’s Deputies assisted by Curry County Code Enforcement Officers and the Brookings Police Department.
The property, owned by 58 year old Todd McClosky, was served in connection to an ongoing investigation of theft of approximately ten thousand dollars worth of metal roof material that had been stolen from property in the Cedar Valley area of Gold Beach.
The material that had been taken had been seen recently at the old Ophir School where 52 year old Steve Barrett and 43 year old Latisha Crosser have been living for several years.
Information had been obtained that Barrett and Crosser had moved to McCloskey property, and took the metal roof material with them. Steve Barrett also had two warrants for his arrest, and had been actively hiding from law enforcement.
After a several hour search of McClosky’s property, Deputies located the stolen metal roofing material in a small trailer hidden down and old cat road. In that same hidden area, Deputies also located a 2005 Ford F-350 truck that had been covered with brush to conceal it. The truck had been reported stolen a year earlier from the JD Auto Sales in Portland. A tow truck responded and was able to recover the stolen vehicle.
During the service of the search warrant on McClosky’s property authorized by a Circuit Court Judge, Barrett was located on the property and arrested on the two warrants, and several people living on the property were detained including the property owner.
Barrett was transported to the Curry County Jail on the two warrants for his arrest and charged with Theft in the First Degree for the metal roofing material and Todd McClosky was cited for Theft by Receiving while a female on the property was issued a citation on an outside warrant from Lane County for her arrest.
All information was relayed to the Curry County District Attorney and additional arrests may be forth coming and Curry County Code Enforcement will be working on the numerous code violations they observed on the property.
