Grass rig stolen from Burchard Fire Department recovered

  • The stolen grass rig has been recovered and towed back to Pawnee County. Pictured L to R: Gary Leatherman, Crime Analyst Nancy Tilton, Sheriff Braden Lang photo by Courtney Kosiski
    The stolen grass rig has been recovered and towed back to Pawnee County. Pictured L to R: Gary Leatherman, Crime Analyst Nancy Tilton, Sheriff Braden Lang photo by Courtney Kosiski

    The Burchard Fire Department grass rig, stolen right from their community building last June, has been recovered and is now back in Pawnee County. The truck, a 2004 Chevy 3500, had been customized with a pump kit bolted to the modified flatbed.

    While local law enforcement had an idea of suspects involved, it took hundreds of hours of investigation across several law enforcement offices to track dow…