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LEESBURG - Nearly $40,000 worth of John Deere farm equipment was stolen overnight Wednesday from Warsaw Farm Center.
The theft was discovered about 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Ind. 15N, Leesburg, business and was reported by its manager.
According to a Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department report, entry to the yard from which the items were taken was made by cutting a chain-link fence on the electric entry gate.
Police believe that a larger trailer or truck would have been used to transport the stolen items: a 2001 6X4 Gator with a 72-inch front blade; a 2001 LT155 with 38-inch deck; a 2002 445 heavy duty tractor; a 2001 1460 with 60-inch side discharge mower; and a 2001 1420 with 28-horsepower gas front mower.
Two other 6X4 Gators were moved as if the suspects also planned to remove them.
The business' sister store at Plymouth had a similar theft last month, police said.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the KCSD at 267-5667.
