Stolen Goods Found at Porter Surplus Sales Yard

PORTER, TX — A warrant service raid on a fortified surplus sales yard turned out to be a logistics and paperwork nightmare for the boys in blue. The problems mainly stemmed from the fact that the owner, whose name has not been released, of the business was allegedly a fence.

When deputies from the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office and the Montgomery County Pct. 4 Constable's Office arrived at the business in the 20100 block of FM 1314, near Indian Circle, in Porter they found a whole mess of allegedly stolen goods.

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The inventory reads like a shopping list for the next police auction: nine stolen vehicles, including a few motorcycles; shipping containers full of tools; pressure washers; generators; multiple cargo, dump and flatbed trailers; and the shell of a hot tub.

Instead of going quietly, and preventing the cops from finding out that damn near everything on the property may have been stolen, the guy the cops were trying to arrest decided to play hide and seek. He ducked into an un-air conditioned RV closet and sweated it out for more than an hour.

He stayed there until he couldn't stand it anymore and had to be taken to the hospital as a heat casualty. The cops also arrested another man and spent hours impounding everything in sight.