ORNEVILLE – Some of the vehicles and items stolen earlier this month from a Big Boyd Lake Road farmhouse were recovered Wednesday on property in the same vicinity as the farmhouse.
A convertible Ford Fairlane, an International Scout, and a 1940 logging truck, all collectable motor vehicles, along with an antique Bridgestone motorcycle, assorted tools, antique car parts and an antique bicycle were recovered when a search warrant was executed by the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Department on property off Routes 6 and 16.
The vehicles were in a clearing hidden from the road by trees.
The owner of the property was home when the search was conducted but declined to talk with the officers, according to Lt. Robert Young of the sheriff’s department. In addition to the stolen items, Young said other evidence was collected and has been forwarded for processing to the Maine State Police crime laboratory. No one has been arrested in connection with the break-in and the theft.
The break-in at the isolated farmhouse was reported by a hunter who was familiar with the property and the area. The owners, who live in Jackman, were notified and came to the region this week to do an inventory.
While initially it was believed there were 20 antique motorcycles taken during the break-in, Young said the owner said about six were missing and one of those was recovered Wednesday. Other items taken included a generator, a Ford 8N tractor, a horse-drawn hay mulcher, a plow and a bushhog.
Young said the doors were ripped from their hinges in the farmhouse during the break-in and those were used to load the vehicles. A license plate was found in the yard that apparently fell off a vehicle involved in the theft and that was being processed. In addition, he said a resident who read a Bangor Daily News account of the theft called police and reported that he had seen the vehicles being transported down the road.
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