<p>Franklin police recovered thousands of dollars worth of stolen tools and arrested a man after he sent social media messages to 10 people asking them to buy tools police said he had stolen.</p>
<p>Christian Alexander Alstott, 23, Franklin was arrested on charges of theft/receiving stolen property, and the prosecutor has filed the charge as a level 6 felony. Alstott was a wedding guest of the man who was stolen from, and the theft happened during the victim’s wedding festivities.</p>
<p>Franklin detective Lt. Scott Summers recovered 2,500 messages from Facebook as part of the investigation and got back nearly all of the stolen tools for the victim who used the tools for work and was burglarized while he was getting married, Summers said.</p>
<p>The tools were worth more than $3,500, according to a report from the Franklin Police Department.</p>
<p>A resident of Julia Street reported on Sept. 1 that he was missing thousands of dollars worth of tools from his garage, the report said.</p>
<p>The man had gotten married the day before and told police he returned home and the tools were missing.</p>
<p>He suspected Alstott because cards were missing from his wedding reception, which Alstott attended, and Alstott had stayed the night with a relative in his home, the report said.</p>
<p>Police began investigating and found several people who said Alstott had tried to sell them tools through Facebook messenger. One man told police that Alstott told him he had received the tools from a relative, according to the report.</p>
<p>Another man told police that Alstott offered him money if he helped him sell the tools, the report said.</p>
<p>Summers went to Alstott’s home and a relative allowed police to look in a shed on the property. A majority of the stolen items were in the shed, the report said.</p>
<p>Alstott gave police multiple reasons for having the tools, but Summers told him that they knew about the messages, even if Alstott had deleted them, the report said.</p>
<p>Alstott, of 837 Franklin Lakes Blvd., was arrested and taken to the Johnson County jail.</p>
