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Deputies arrest man for tractor theft

By Lightning Reports, Published: August 7, 2015

Henderson County sheriff's deputies on Thursday charged a 20-year-old Chestnut Gap Road resident with the theft of a tractor.

The investigation started Thursday at about 6:30 p.m. when deputies responded to a call from a residence off of Ridge Road concerning the possible larceny of a Massey Ferguson tractor.

During the course of the investigation, deputies also found a 1998 Ford Ranger pickup truck that had been broken into and damaged by someone trying to hotwire it. While canvassing the neighborhood looking for witnesses, a deputy found a set of fresh tractor tire tracks leading down a driveway on Pilot Mountain Road leading off into a large field. Through further interviews deputies were able to figure out where the suspect may have been heading. As deputies were approaching a residence on Chestnut Gap Road attempting to make contact with the homeowner they heard a tractor pulling up behind the residence.

The deputies made contact with the operator of the tractor who was later identified as James Donovan Summey. Summey was taken into  without incident and charged with felony larceny, felony breaking and entering a motor vehicle, and injury to personal property. He was jailed at the Henderson County Detention Facility under a $30,000 secured bond.