West Texas Sheriffs: Oil Theft Is a Major Crime Issue

West Texas Sheriffs: Oil Theft Is a Major Crime Issue

HUDSPETH COUNTY, Texas—Law enforcement in West Texas say they don’t have enough manpower to deal with the rise of oil theft.   “Everybody’s shorthanded,” Sheriff Art Granado of Reeves County told The Daily Signal at the March Big Bend Area Law Enforcement Officers Association meeting while explaining the oil theft issue in his community.   “There is a lot of money to be made” in oil theft, Granado said. The illegal practice requires a truck to h…