Summary
WHITESBURG, Ky. - The crime scene, a once-wooded landscape marked by tire tracks and tree stumps, makes the victim, Verna Potter, feel physically violated.
"It's just like someone cut your heart out," says the 77-year- old Potter, who lost an estimated $50,000 worth of generations-old oak trees, which were taken from her property and sold, without permission, while she was away.See the full content of this document
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Climbing Timber Prices Embolden Tree Thieves
Rogue loggers have long preyed on private properties from coast to coast, taking advantage of the elderly, the absent or - in Potter's case - both. And they traditionally had little to fear from law enforcemen...
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