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February 20, 2009

Sheriffs gather property

Missouri man wanted in three other states

John Walker

DUNCAN — A little over two weeks after the arrest of Ronnie Eugene Summers, 35, of Bollivar, Mo. in Henryetta, Okla., the Stephens County Sheriff’s Department acquired the trailer Thursday that Summers allegedly purchased with a stolen check.

The department sorted through every item in the trailer Thursday. Any trash was thrown away. All other items were tagged. An attempt to find the owner for each item found in the trailer will be made.

Stephens County Sheriff Wayne McKinney said he suspects that most, if not all, the items found in the trailer were stolen by Summers because nine other counties in three states have pending charges on him.

Seven of the counties are in Missouri, one is in Iowa and one is in Kansas, McKinney said.

Summers remains in the Stephens County Jail on a $50,000 bond and is awaiting his next appearance in court on March 24.

He is charged in relation to a Jan. 14 incident where Summers allegedly forged a stolen check for $52,585 in order to purchase the horse trailer from a local dealer, Rezner Trailers.

Once the sheriff’s office found out about the incident, it sought aid from the Department of Agriculture, Oklahoma Highway Patrol and Southwest Cattlemen Association in order to apprehend Summers.

After a few days of searching for Summers across Oklahoma, law enforcement acquired a court order that gave them access to all cell phone transactions made by Summers.

They finally found Summers Feb. 3 in Henryetta through triangulation of his cell-phone calls.

“He was pulling another trailer when we arrested him with the aid of the state agencies,” McKinney said.

The trailer Summers allegedly purchased with a hot check from Stephens County was parked in Henryetta.

The trailer was stored in Henryetta until law enforcement agencies could retrieve it.

It will be returned to the horse trailer dealer because the case against Summers is a bogus check, not a stolen piece of property, McKinney said.

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