Multiple Arrests Made in Several Copper Theft Investigations; Additional Suspect Still Sought
TICKFAW (July 13, 2026)- The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested five suspects in at least three separate copper theft cases since the start of the month.
The first case involved two stolen A/C units and a third unit stripped from a church on Highway 1065 over three separate incidents. Thanks to the neighbors around the church sharing their tips and home surveillance cameras, the two suspects were caught right across the street with one of the stolen units still on site.
Robert Myrick, 47, and Jeremy Thompson, 46, were each booked on one count each of Burglary of a Religious Building, Theft, and Simple Criminal Damage to Property. Robert Magee, 45, was booked on one count each of Simple Criminal Damage to Property and Theft. At the time of this arrest, Magee was already in the Tangipahoa Parish Jail on a different copper theft case from earlier this month. Since this arrest, he’s been booked in a third copper theft case from the last week of June.
Then, TPSO received a call from a local scrap yard about a white male and white female having tried to sell a large amount of suspected stolen copper. Detectives who had been working several ongoing copper theft investigations quickly found the suspect vehicle, with all of the materials piled in the back of the pickup truck, and arrested the two suspects.
Chrystal Watson, 37 of Roseland, was arrested on an outstanding Felony Theft Failure to Appear charge while Adam Warren, 39 of Roseland, was booked on a Theft warrant out of Mississippi.
At this time, it is believed that the recovered property is connected to multiple thefts here in Tangipahoa Parish and in Mississippi and detectives are actively working to attempt to connect the items to the pending and possibly unknown cases.
An open copper theft investigation that detectives are currently asking the public’s help with was caught on camera on June 28th and involves an A/C condenser stolen from an 82-year-oldman’s shop on Crapanzano Road in Hammond that is costing him $20,000 to replace.
Sheriff Gerald Sticker encourages anyone with information about who this suspect is, or their whereabouts, to contact the TPSO Criminal Investigations Division at 985-902-2088.
If you’d prefer to share information anonymously, you can do so through Crime Stoppers of Tangipahoa’s tip line at 1-800-554-5245 or visit www.tangicrimestoppers.com and click on the P3Tips icon or Submit A Tip!
You may be eligible for a cash reward.
TPSO Public Information Office, pio@tpso.org
