07/21/2025
Some words for our community-
In the early hours Halloween morning we had our fences cut and peeled open for someone(s) to help themselves to equipment and tools we have work so hard to have. A very loud diesel white pick up was seen in the area and looks like what our cameras caught (not great pics unfortunately). They wore lights on their heads to see and so cameras couldn't see their faces. They went undetected for hours while we slept, loading up everything they could, prying our doors open to the shop, breaking into every truck and job box on them. It seemed they knew where they going, what they were doing and had been here before. When you wake up and find you have been been robbed is devastating. Call the cops, take the pics, call insurance, fix the fences, take inventory of everything missing, gather serial numbers of every chain saw, chop saw etc. That you can, digging through years of receipts, deleting gate codes and erasing gate openers to reinstall since they took an opener from a truck probably with plans to come back and have easier access, replacing equipment and tools so crews can get back to work, countless hours spent hounding insurance to deal with the claim, adding more lights, cameras, security systems, sleeping in shifts to watch the cameras and wait for them to come back. We understand the stress and the heartache we see all around us, as neighbors and friends and our community is picked apart by these theives. We work hard for the things we have, 30 plus years to build this company and acquire the equipment and tools we have, just to have it taken from us. Even with all the fences, cameras, lighting, it doesn't stop them, we thought our place was secure as could be, that we wouldnt fall victim to these low lifes, but we did and it's deflating. We want our friends, neighbors and community to know we stand with you, we want it to stop, we don't want anymore sleepless nights, we don't want to see anyone around us become victims. We understand when people are hurt they say things, they make accusations and that's how rumors are born. There is no truth to any associations between cosmo and a certain crowe or his associates or any other lowlives. We don't have the time or need to be involved in such activities. Our family, our business, our crew are all hard working and honest. So just because 1 hurt or hateful person says something without any substance or proof to back it up doesn't mean its creditable or the absolute truth. We stand with our community in the quest to find and stop these thieves. Here I will leave pictures of some of our damage and the very terrible pictures our cameras caught. Please reach out if you do have information about Halloween morning. We need to come together and communicate not point fingers around or throw each other to the wolves, theses theives are out there watching us like prey, time to turn the hunter into the hunted. But remember do not try to confront anyone alone, they are not beyond phyiscally hurting land and property owners! We can only hope these theives can be caught and justice served.
Ian Clayton, Wendy Lee Clayton and Ashly-Dawn McMillan
