December 21, 2020
Northwest Iowa Authorities in O’Brien and Osceola Counties were hip-deep in stolen vehicles Monday morning in a case that spans both counties.
According to Osceola County Sheriff’s Deputy Lieutenant Seth Hoffman, his dispatchers received a call about 6:30 Monday morning from a rural Melvin resident who reported finding a pickup and small trailer stopped on his hog site. Hoffman says when the resident asked the pickup’s driver why he had stopped there, he was told that the vehicle’s brake lights weren’t working, but then drive away. According to Hoffman, the farmer thought the story sounded suspicious, so he called the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office. During the time Hoffman was proceeding to the scene, he says the farmer had walked around to the back side of his building, where he discovered a UTV that did not belong there.