Photos of the stolen metal roofing and truck on McClosky's property. | CCSO

Curry County Sheriff's Office press release:

Wednesday February 09, 2022, Curry County Sheriff’s Deputies assisted by Curry County Code Enforcement Officers and the Brookings Police Department, served a search warrant on property located at 17790 Old County Road in Brookings, owned by 58-year-old Todd McClosky.

The search warrant was in connection with an ongoing investigation of theft of approximately $10,000 worth of metal roof material that had been stolen from property in the Cedar Valley area of Gold Beach.

The material that had been taken, was recently seen at the old Ophir School where 52-old Steve Barrett and 43-year-old Latisha Crosser have been living for several years.

We had information that Barrett and Crosser moved to McCloskey property and took the metal roof material with them. Barrett also had two warrants for his arrest, and he had been actively hiding from law enforcement.

During the service of the search warrant on McClosky’s property authorized by a Circuit Court Judge, several people living on the property were detained including the property owner. Barrett was located on the property and arrested on the two warrants.

After a several hour search of McClosky’s property, Deputies located the stolen metal roofing material in a small trailer hidden down an old cat road. In that same hidden area, Deputies also located a 2005 Ford F-350 truck that had been covered with brush to conceal it. The truck had been reported stolen a year earlier from the JD Auto Sales in Portland. A tow truck responded and was able to recover the stolen vehicle.

Barrett was transported to the Curry County Jail on the two warrants for his arrest and charged with Theft in the First Degree for the metal roofing material.

Todd McClosky was cited for Theft by Receiving.

A female on the property was issued a citation on an outside warrant from Lane County for her arrest.

All information was relayed to the Curry County District Attorney and additional arrests may be forth coming.

Curry County Code Enforcement will be working on the numerous code violations they observed on the property.

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