The hunt for a serial thief is over. LEX 18 News reported earlier this week that a man was going across Kentucky writing a bad trucker’s checks. Once Wolfe County Deputies saw the story, they said they got on his tracks.
Finally Thursday afternoon, 46-year-old Bobby Brewer was arrested from his mother’s home in Wolfe County. It’s an arrest people in southeastern Kentucky have been waiting for.
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“He’s a crook, he’s a professional, he needs to be put away,” John Dunahoo said.
He said he knows this too well and said Brewer stole from his furniture store in Beattyville back in February.
Investigators said Brewer has hit up Lee, Fleming, Estill, Magoffin and Clark Counties and used the same tricks.
After police released photos Brewer, his mother-in-law identified him to authorities.
“He had what they call truckers checks and was going around distributing them around over the state,” said Deputy Gary Smith, with the Wolfe County Sheriff’s Department. “They weren’t real checks; they were all phony cold checks.”
Dunahoo said he bought two lamps using a $325 check, and pocketed the rest of the money. When Dunahoo’s son saw Brewer’s picture on LEX 18 News, he knew the face right away.
“I figured they would get him pretty soon because once they put him on that news everybody is looking out for him,” Dunahoo said.
After a tip, Brewer was found at his mother’s house Thursday.
He was booked into the Three Forks Regional Jail for warrants out of three counties and more expected to follow.
Deputies said he was ready for the arrest.
“He just said that he wished he hadn’t done them but he was glad it was going to be over with,” Deputy Smith said. “He ran long enough.”
That’s something he and his victims agree on.
“I am glad they caught him and got him off the street,” Dunahoo said.
We asked Brewer if he wanted to share his side of the story, but he declined.
