Deputies: Man confesses to stealing irrigation wire

A 19-year-old Sikeston, Missouri, man turned himself in and confessed on Christmas Day to Scott County sheriff's deputies to stealing 400 feet of irrigation pivot wire.

Preston David Jackson told deputies about nine days earlier, he walked through a field east of his house at in the 1700 block of County Road 405 and took the pivot wire by cutting it from a functional irrigation pivot, which was near an abandoned house, detective Barry Morgan wrote in a probable-cause statement.

Morgan saw two 200-foot spans of wire missing in the field and that a third span had a quarter of its wire missing, he wrote.

The owner of the pivot said he noticed the wire was missing, but he hadn't yet reported the crime, Morgan wrote. He estimated the wire cost $8,000.

Jackson is charged with felony theft, felony property damage and misdemeanor trespassing.

His bond was set at $5,000.

Pertinent address:

1700 block of County Road 405, Sikeston, Mo.