Thanks to a phone call from an observant and concerned citizen in Grant County, an individual who has been under investigation by several area agencies for copper theft from oil and gas well sites has been arrested. On August 3, 2022, at approximately 1017 hours, Nathan Schuermann of Medford was taken into custody after being found on an oil and gas well site in Grant County. Schuermann was found to be in possession of methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia, cut copper wire, and miscellaneous tools believed to have been used for the theft of copper wire from oil and gas sites. Schuermann is currently incarcerated at the Grant County Jail awaiting formal charges being submitted to the District Attorney’s Office.
Copper thefts in the State of Oklahoma amount to severe financial losses to oil and gas producers in the state, adding up to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year. If you see suspicious activity on an oil and gas well site, or any other type of suspicious activity, please report it immediately to your local sheriff’s office. For local suspicious activity concerns, please call (580) 395-2356 to make a report of any type of suspicious activity to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office. Unfortunately, we cannot be everywhere at once, and we depend on the citizens of our county to assist us in apprehending criminals who would deprive citizens and businesses in Grant County of their livelihoods and property.
Thank you to the citizen who rapidly responded in this instance, by contacting the pumper for the oil and gas producer, who in turn contacted the Sheriff’s Office to make this apprehension possible!
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