CLEMSON — CLEMSON -- An $80,000 street-sweeping machine has been returned to its owner and an Oconee County jail inmate has been charged with stealing it in May.
The Westminster man also is charged with the theft of a Clemson University mail van on campus in June.
Clemson Police Chief Jimmy Dixon said the sweeper truck was found in woods in the Starr-Iva area.
Dixon said Timothy Bryan Turner, 24, of Westminster, who was in the Oconee County Detention Center on charges related to the theft of the mail van, confessed to stealing the street sweeper and led investigators to it.
Turner was questioned after an investigator from the Oconee County Sheriff’s Office got in touch with the police and said he might have information about the case.
Turner’s bond has been set at more than $83,000 the mail van case and he could face additional federal charges.
The sweeper was stolen May 19 at the Bi-Lo on Highway 93 in Clemson while its operator was checking the parking lot before cleaning.
Dixon said the machine is owned by Greenville Mechanical in Greenville.
He said there was some damage caused by the truck being driven into the woods, and some parts, such as a mirror, had been removed.
In the mail van case, Clemson University police charged a Turner with grand larceny of an automobile.
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