The Cherokee County Sheriff’s Office has recovered items stolen from two area school systems and a church, including tools the church used to build low cost structures for the less fortunate.
Authorities made the discovery Tuesday, after a Cherokee sheriff’s deputy went to Thomas Allen Reeves’ Sugar Pike Road residence to serve him with court papers and noticed a trailer fitting the description of one stolen in September from North Central Area Missions on North Arnold Mill Road, Lt. Jay Baker said Wednesday in an emailed statement.
The deputy ran a license check on the trailer and confirmed that it was the stolen trailer, Baker said.
Detectives arrived on the scene with a search warrant, and found generators, nail guns, drills, saws and other miscellaneous tools that had been stolen from the church. They also found inflatable jump houses and popcorn machines that the church used for special events as well as laptops and palm pilots that may belong to school systems in Douglas and Gilmer counties, he said.
Reeves, 38, has been at the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center without bond on unrelated charges since a Oct. 26 arrest.
“Charges for the recovered stolen property have not yet been filed as detectives continue to sort through the property that was taken from Reeves home,” Baker said.
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