Some RV transport drivers took the law into their own hands recently when they found two trucks the Elkhart County Sheriff has been looking for.
This story by Katlin Connin originally appeared on WSBT 22 News.
Those trucks were caught on security camera a few weeks ago.
The drivers stole a pair of RVs out of Middlebury.
When Joe Schmitt and Joe Jarvis saw the same rigs just down the road from their main office in Goshen, they knew they had to act. They both work for Synergy RV Transport.
Schmitt and Jarvis say they don’t take this kind of crime lightly.
A picture above from the Elkhart Sheriff’s Department got stuck in Joe Jarvis’ mind; that green truck is the same model he drives.
Then he saw that truck at the gas station down the road, so he called his boss Joe Schmitt. Schmitt wasted no time getting to the station. He and Jarvis called the police and approached the accused thieves.
“They were fueling up, so we were sitting there talking, waiting, waiting, waiting,” said Schmitt.
“We knew something was up right away,” said Jarvis. “They had no transporter plates, no placards or anything like that.”
When the drivers started to act jumpy, Jarvis and Schmitt took action.
“We pinned them in, had a guy in the front and a guy in the back on all three units,” said Schmitt. “We kind of surrounded them.”
