Monday, September 08, 2014

Milk dumped after dairy vandalism
A Cocke County farmer says he lost a tank of milk on Saturday when someone vandalized the milk room on his dairy farm. Jack Gregg, Mack Road, Parrottsville told Deputy Tony Bailey his hired hand, Jimmy Blankenship, discovered the vandalism at 5 am, when he went to milk cows in the barn. Blankenship said when he entered the milk room he detected the odor of oil and then discovered a gallon of WD-40 lubricant had been dumped onto the milk tank and some had entered the tank which contained 800 gallons of milk. Gregg said the milk had to be poured out so that the tank could be sanitized. Further investigation revealed that an impact wrench and tools were carried away, an air pellet gun had been left behind and Gregg found a large machete in one of two vehicles that had been entered. Nothing was taken from the autos. Deputy Bailey said two sets of footprints led to an area where a fence had been cut in two locations and corn in a field had been knocked down. Gregg did not detail the dollar loss in the vandalism.


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