CONWAY, AR – One lawn at a time, year after year, Edward Crockett has built a business on his back.
“I had my parents just drive me around. I had a little push mower we’d put in the back of the car,” Crockett said.
But when the young professional lawn mower turned his back Sunday, thieves had taken his trailer and mower right out of his driveway.
“I just got home from church and I just walked up,” Crockett said. “It was chained around the wheel.”
The equipment. worth more than $9,000 was bought by the teen and his grandfather.
“Sickening and really frustrating,” Crockett said. “I worked hard to get that and someone just grabbed it.”
Crockett says the only thing the thieves left behind were scrape marks before they took off with that trailer.
He’s a good kid, he’s a hard worker,” Glenn Crockett, the victim’s father said.
Crockett says the thieves also took his family’s peace of mind.
“Now there’s this fear of someone else coming back if they’re bold enough to come in broad daylight , then when it gets dark it’s even scarier,” Crockett said.
“People feel like it’s a crime of opportunity,” said LaTresha Woodruff, with the Conway Police Department.
Woodruff recommends keeping track of trailer tags and serial numbers which could help officers later find stolen property.
“If there’s not any type of VIN number that goes with the trailer, put some sort of mark on there,” Woodruff said.
“It’d be nice to have it back,” Crockett said.
Crockett says his stolen trailer will be tough to forget, just last year it took one of his fingers while working.
“I was loading up the hitch and it just slipped and cut it right off,” Crockett said.
But Crockett says he’s not holding on to hot air.
“It’s not right for me to be mad at them because they need a lot of love right now,” Crockett said.
