(Sidney, Iowa) – Officials with the Fremont County Sheriff’s Office, Sunday evening, 41-year-old John Robert Washburn, of Hastings, IA, was arrested Sunday, following a report of a possible theft from a building at AgriVision Equipment, in Hamburg. At around 9-a.m. Sunday, employees were alerted by a witness that someone had backed a vehicle into one of the sheds and was still in the building. Employee’s arrived and questioned Washburn.

He told the employees he was working on his vehicle in the building, so he could stay out of the rain. The employees obtained information from Washburn including his name and vehicle license plate number. After Washburn left the building, the employees noticed that some items had been moved and that a pump was taken off of an industrial air compressor and was missing. A Fremont County Deputy along with a Mills County Deputy went to a rural Hastings location and located the stolen pump outside a building.

John Washburn (Fremont County S/O photo)

After an investigation at the scene Washburn was arrested for Burglary Second Degree and Theft Second and transported to the Fremont County Jail where he is being held on a ten-thousand-dollar bond.