A tip led Effingham County Sheriff’s deputies to uncover what is alleged to be tens of thousands of stolen scrap metal. Saturday morning around 7:30, deputies Matt Petrea and Jason Fondren pulled over a truck hauling a trailer loaded with what was said to be scrap metal. It turned out to be quite an arrest for the ECSO. "We didn’t know the trailer was stolen also," Fondren said.
Hot tip leads to arrest of metals theft suspect

