01/04/2018
Hey everyone, we need your help! We got a call around 9:00pm last night that some of our cotton was on fire. We ended up losing 41 bales to the fire after it was contained.
The Chaves County Sheriff's Office is currently conducting an investigation into the cause of the fire. While we'd like to say this was isolated event, this was the third major incident to happen during the past week. Earlier last week someone sliced the wrapping on seven of our cotton bales, then a few days later someone attempted to steal our forklift. With all of this happening, we are fairly certain the fire was set intentionally.
We are currently working alongside the Chaves County Sheriff's Office to get to the bottom of this. We are offering a reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person/persons responsible for the fire, as well as the bale slicing and attempted theft of the forklift. We are asking anyone with any information to contact the Chaves County Sheriff's Office at 575-624-6500. We also ask that you share this post; we hope by having more people see it, we might be able to get this resolved quickly.
A huge thank you to the Hagerman and District 8 Fire departments for containing the fire, as well as the Hagerman Police Department and Chaves County Sheriff for responding so swiftly and helping further the investigation. Thank you to everyone for your calls, texts, and messages of support! We will keep you updated as we learn more.
