{"id":169078,"date":"2023-08-17T03:40:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T08:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=169078"},"modified":"2023-08-18T03:42:30","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T08:42:30","slug":"van-wert-pd-investigating-theft-from-county-fairgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2023\/08\/17\/van-wert-pd-investigating-theft-from-county-fairgrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"VWPD investigating theft from fairgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Van Wert Police Department is looking for a Grinch of sorts, the person responsible for a recent theft from the Van Wert County Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The police department was contacted last Thursday about the theft of various pieces of equipment and supplies belonging to the 4-H Exchange Club, the group responsible for a local favorite \u2013 the annual Holiday Light Show at the fairgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"256\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/LIght-show-8-2023-e1692348121952.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169079\"\/><figcaption>Equipment used to light up holiday displays like this one were taken from the fairgrounds. Fortunately, the actual displays appear to be fine. <em>4-H Exchange Club photo <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>It happened last Wednesday, August 10. Among the missing items, according to a police report: a brand new gas powered \u201cJack Chen\u201d JC-70A post pounder valued at between $400-$500; a Dewalt 125000 btu propane heater valued at $200; 6-8 rolls of LED rope lighting valued at $150 each, and miscellaneous extension cords, electrical parts, electrical tools and more valued at approximately $300.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just more aggravating than it is a lot of money,\u201d 4-H Club advisor Jay Gamble said. \u201cOne of our biggest displays, the Paul Bunyan display, we\u2019re getting ready to completely redo that in rope lighting and we had a lot of it purchased for that but they got some of it we\u2019ll have to rebuy it. Our supplier has assured us plenty for us to get it lit up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other items, including timers for the various displays were taken, and the thief apparently cut some of the guide wires used for the displays. The displays themselves appear to be intact and Gamble said the recent theft will not affect this year\u2019s light show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>The police report said a number of other items used for the display were found scattered around the fairgrounds. In addition, a cart that appeared to be a pull-behind bicycle cart with miscellaneous wires and odd scraps was found and it was seen on video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cameras at the fairgrounds show the suspects on three different occasions during the early morning hours \u2013 approximately 1:35 a.m., 3 a.m. and 3:05 a.m. The report indicates the investigation continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHopefully they find who did this,\u201d Gamble said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor The Van Wert Police Department is looking for a Grinch of sorts, the person responsible for a recent theft from the Van Wert County Fairgrounds. The police department was contacted last Thursday about the theft of various pieces of equipment and supplies belonging to the 4-H Exchange Club, the group responsible for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 09:46:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169078"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169137,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169078\/revisions\/169137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}