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<br />Sheriff's Office <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />ErICH ADAMS <br />Sheriff <br /> <br />300 Rosemant Street <br />SULPHUR SPRINGS, TEXAS i 5482 <br /> <br />OFFlCE PHO!\'E <br />(903) 885.7575 <br />(903) 8E5.1588 <br />FAX (903) 885-49~i <br /> <br />RJCKEY MORGA~ <br />Chief Deputy <br /> <br />Texas Automobile Theft Prevention Authority <br />Gus DeLaRosa, Director <br />200 East Riverside Drive <br />Austin,TX. 78704 <br /> <br />!~r. DeLaRosa, <br /> <br />As of January 1997, Joel Chipman and Haskell Maroney of the <br />Northeast Texas Auto Theft Task Force in Paris, Texas has assisted <br />the Hopkins County Sheriff's Office in solving a number of cases <br />related with auto thefts. Many of the cases that were solved by Joel <br />and Haskell were trailer thefts. Four cases to be exact. Thev <br />.. <br /> <br />also assisted in finding stolen tractors, a Bobcat skid loader, and <br />seeking out chop shops in Hopkins County. Joel and ~askell also <br />assisted in setting up a reversal sting on a stolen t:actor to a <br />bondsman and a known cocaine dealer here in Sulphur Springs. They <br />also helped recover vehicles in two chop shops in our area. They <br />have also found registered owners of vehicles where v:ns have been <br />removed, in which our officers have no knowledge of this process and <br />their assistance is always needed in these particular areas. This <br />department does not have a full time auto theft Unit due to shortage <br />of man power. The Northeast Texas Auto Theft Task Force is crucial <br />to this department. If it weren't for them, we would probably still <br />have unsolved cases of stolen tractors and trailers. The Hopkins <br />County Sheriff's Office has a working agreement with the Auto Task <br />Force and we would like it to stay that way. The Task Force provides <br />the manpower for necessary surveillances and follow-up on cases we <br />would not normally have time to work on. Their expertise in auto <br />theft is very beneficial to our department. <br />This department needs the North East Texas Auto Theft Task Force <br />because the closest person that could possibly help usin assisting in <br />our area is Rex Wileman, a DPS officer in Mt. Pleasant. The <br />problem with using Rex is that he is constantly tied ~p with other <br />cases in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. In our county alone, there were <br />32,000 registered vehicles in the 1997 year. Out of these we had 67 <br />