A brazen thief hot-wired a front-end loader to steal hay valued at $5,000 from fields on a farm north of Wellington. It was the latest in a series of northern Colorado hay and alfalfa thefts reported in the wake of prices pushed high by prolonged drought and extreme heat throughout the country. "This is the third or fourth one in the last five or six weeks," said Larimer County sheriff's spokesman John Schulz. "It was one of the larger ones." The thief — or, more likely, team of thieves — took 10 round bales, which can stand more than 6 feet high, five 4-foot-by-4-foot alfalfa bales and eight 3-foot-by-4-foot alfalfa bales. Another $800 worth of hay was damaged. The ignition switch of the front-end loader was damaged when the machine was hot-wired, the sheriff's department said. The theft took place sometime between 1 p.m. on Aug. 30 and noon on Sept. 4, Schulz said...more
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