A Knox teen and two LaPorte men were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly stealing a garden tractor from a business in LaPorte. According to the report, on June 5 around 12:12 p.m., police were called to a business at 628 Boston St. to investigate a report of three men who had reportedly pushed a garden tractor off the property of the business.

Officers arrived at the scene shortly after but did not find the suspects in the area, so they traveled to a local recycling business to find out if the suspects had taken the tractor there to find its value. A company employee informed police that three men had just pushed a garden tractor into their lot with a vehicle before pushing it onto the weigh scale by hand.

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