In cooperation with Lamar County Sheriff’s Dept. investigators and the Northeast Texas Auto Theft Task Force, the Hugo Police Department apprehended two individuals on July 29 for felony theft charges out of Lamar County, according Lamar County Sheriff Scott Cass.
Kevin Don Stout
Kevin Don Stout and Latonya Nanette Hargrove were arrested after sheriff investigators received information linking them to several felony thefts where alleged fake credit cards were used to purchase trailers and other items from stores in the Paris area, as well as the Greenville and Rockwall areas.
On July 25, a local trailer sales company reported to the Lamar County Sheriff’s Office a theft of a trailer valued in excess of $6,200.00 dollars by a male subject using an identification card and a similar credit card that sheriff investigators were alerted to by Hugo Police Department detectives.
“Sheriff investigators found where other businesses in the Lamar County area that had fallen victim to the same course of conduct where the male subject had purchased four tires valued over $800 dollars, a car hauler trailer valued over $2,500 dollars, gas and auto parts,” the sheriff said.
A positive identification on the male subject identified him as Kevin Don Stout, from the Hugo, Oklahoma area.
Latonya Nanette Hargrove
Additionally, sheriff and task force investigators gained felony warrants for theft over $1,500 but under $20,000 for Stout and a felony theft warrant for a Latonya Nanette Hargrove.
Stout and Hargrove were both located and arrested by the Hugo Police Department in their jurisdiction on Monday, July 29.
Detectives ran a search warrant at their residence in Hugo and recovered numerous credit cards, receipts and a device used to make credit cards, the sheriff said.
Both are in the Choctaw County Jail awaiting arraignment.
“Investigators from Lamar, Hunt and the Northeast Texas Auto Theft Task Force are investigating numerous other purchases in all three jurisdictions related to this investigation where over $13,000 dollars of property has been purchased with one or more of these presumed fictitious credit cards,” Cass said.
The sheriff’s office is asking anyone with any information on this case to contact the Lamar County Sheriff’s Dept. Criminal Investigation Division or your local law enforcement agency.