Police arrested two men Sunday after police say they took a GPS-tagged tool box from a construction site.
Dagoberto Aguilar Rosas, 30, of Greenwood, was arrested on charges of burglary and possession of stolen property. Tomas Garatchia Esquivel, also 30, of Indianapolis, was arrested on charges of burglary, possession of stolen property, possession of methamphetamine and possession of paraphernalia. Burglary is a Level 5 felony.
The Greenwood Police Department responded at 4:45 p.m. to a call from a man who said that he put a GPS tracker inside a box of drywall screws he left at a home construction site in Greenwood, in a subdivision near Cutsinger and Honey Creek roads, and he had gotten a notification that the tool box had left the site, according to a Greenwood Police Department report.
He told police he placed a tracking device in a tool box due to concerns about materials being taken from the site.
The man gave officers instructions to the suspects using the GPS tracking device. Police tracked down a brown Toyota Tundra pulling a trailer that matched the device’s location, according to the report.
Officers initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle at Sheek and Worthsville roads. Rosas and Esquivel were in the truck, and identified themselves to the police, the report said.
Officers searched the vehicle and found the box of drywall screws with a GPS tracker inside. The man who called the police also showed up at the scene and said Rosas and Esquivel did not work at the construction site, according to the report.
Rosas told police Esquivel told him he needed to pick up construction materials from that site to fix his patio, so he drove him there, the report said.
Officers searched both men. On Esquivel, they also found a pipe containing a white crystal substance believed to be methamphetamine, according to the report.
Both men were arrested and taken to the Johnson County jail. Rosas is held on $4,300 bond, and Esquivel is held on $6,500 bond.
