Police News for November 5, 2009
• Cops Arrest Men For Stealing Four-wheelers
• Minor Leak At BP Contained
Cops Arrest Men For Stealing Four-wheelers
SANTA FE — Three Santa Fe men were arrested Wednesday and charged with stealing four-wheelers in the county. Galveston County Auto Crimes Task Force officials said they used a bait four-wheeler to nab the suspects.
The arrests came as part of an ongoing investigation into a rash of all terrain and four-wheeler thefts in the county. Using a four-wheeler that investigators could track, the task force placed the bait vehicle in an area where they thought the thieves would strike next.
Galveston County Sheriff’s Office Capt. Barry Cook said they got a bite on the bait four-wheeler and tracked it to a house near 28th Street and Avenue L in Santa Fe.
After recovering the stolen four-wheeler, Auto Crimes Task Force deputies with the help of Santa Fe and Alvin police officers and K-9 officers arrested Rickey Linkey, 44, David Herod, 39, and Ernie Scales, 46.
Cook said the men were part of a burglary gang that specialized in four-wheelers and all-terrain vehicles.
Linkey was charged with felony theft, criminal mischief and engaging in organized criminal activity and was being held in the county jail on bonds totaling $375,000. Herod was charged with the same and was being held in the jail on bonds totaling $300,000, while Scales was charged with engaging in organized criminal activity and held in the county jail on $20,000 bond.
Cook said the three men are not connected to a rash of four-wheeler thefts that happened in La Marque within the last month.
“Those are a whole different set of crooks,” Cook said.
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Minor Leak At BP Contained
TEXAS CITY — About 10 barrels of an oil refining additive leaked from a unit at BP’s Texas City refinery Wednesday prompting a low-level alert at the refinery as well as neighboring Dow Chemical plant. No one was hurt, and the leak was plugged and the spilled material mostly contained within two hours, company officials said.
During the restart of BP’s Ultraformer No. 4 unit, work crews discovered that naphtha, a chemical solvent used in oil refining, was leaking from the unit. The leak was contained within a concrete holding area, BP spokesman Michael Marr said.
The mothball smell from the material, though, drifted from the unit on the refinery’s west side and could be detected at Dow Chemical because of easterly winds. While no one was at risk, both plants issued Level 1 alerts and isolated shelter in place orders within the plants.
No alerts were issued outside the plants, city emergency management officials said.
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