A Jefferson County Grand Jury has indicted Arne Koenig, 51, for Burglary of a Building.
On Sept. 1 deputies responded to the area of Tram Rd. and Toliver Canal Rd. after a neighbor thought it was suspicious that someone was riding a mini excavator in the area. The witness thought it was suspicious becasue it was a holiday weekend and all construction around her area had been stopped because it was a holiday. Turned out their thinking was correct.
Deputies found Koenig, from Vidor, and another man in the roadway with a Kubota excavator, and another man with a truck and a trailer.
After separate interviews with the three men it was learned that Koenig had contacted the man with the trailer about buying the excavator for $3500. The actual price would’ve been more around the 10K mark. The excavator actually belonged to a man in the area. He was contacted and when he arrived, he learned that his machine had been removed from his barn.
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