Missing Yeti cooler leads cops to neighbor who has ‘issues’ with Georgia man
A tan Yeti cooler was reportedly stolen from a Jackson-area man’s front yard by, as a Monroe County sheriff’s report noted, “his neighbor.”
The cooler, said to have had a “right strap” broken, wasn’t further described in the write-up. However, it apparently belonged to the father of the man who reported it stolen the afternoon of June 22.
A sheriff’s deputy was directed to a neighbor’s house on Big Buck Trail and also told of tire tracks from a four-wheeler thought to belong to the neighbor. The tracks led from a spot near where the Yeti in question was last seen.
The victim, 29, informed the deputy that he and the neighbor had in recent months experienced “ongoing issues.” As the deputy investigated further, the deputy ventured to the neighbor’s house, where the neighbor’s wife, according to the report, said her husband was away at work.
When the deputy asked the wife if she knew anything about a tan Yeti, she said she did not. But she called her husband on the phone and handed the phone to the deputy. The husband told the deputy that the neighbor who’d reported the cooler stolen “owed him $60 and has not paid him back for over 3 weeks.”
And, yes, the husband admitted, that was why he took the cooler. The neighbor said he “knew it was wrong” but “felt this was his only option,” the report explained.
The neighbor told the deputy where the cooler was — in his garage. The deputy fetched the filched frou-frou freezer and returned it. No charges were filed.
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