Friday, June 24, 2016

Antique farm equipment recovered
A Cocke County couple face charges after they allegedly sold stolen antique farm equipment. Barbara Cureton told Det. Lt. Robert Thornton that three tobacco setters and a cultipacker recently were stolen from a barn on her rental property on Crum Hollow Road. Officer Thornton learned that the renters at the farm, Steven David Ball, 41, and Lisa Margaret Hogate, 42, sold the three tobacco setters to the owner of Pickers Paradise on Highway 411. According to the unidentified antique dealer, she had been buying items from the couple for about two years. Although Cureton says the three tobacco setters are valued at $3,000, the operator of the store said she paid the couple $100 for the items. The cultipacker valued at $2,500 has not been recovered. Ball and Hogate are charged with theft over $1,000 and violation of probation. Hogate is charged also with failure to appear for a previous court hearing.


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