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Texas 'dirt bandit' fesses up but refuses to pay
SANTA FE – State Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn says he’s cracked the case of the Dirt Bandit.
A Texas county confessed to taking the dirt, he said, but isn’t ready to pony up.
Dunn said this week that he has informed Hudspeth County that it owes $19,360 – the value of the dirt, sand and gravel taken from state trust lands in Otero County, New Mexico.
Texas officials, meanwhile, say they shouldn’t have to pay – because their crews have been maintaining a stretch of N.M. 506 for years, and the repairs should serve as adequate compensation. The crews thought the road was in Texas, not New Mexico, Dunn said.
Read more: https://www.abqjournal.com/1060505/state-land-office-dirt-bandit-fessed-up-wont-pay.html
