Posted on 06/04/2021 6:49:01 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
A Bettendorf couple faces felony charges after police say they stole a 500-pound welder from a construction site at the Interstate 74 Bridge.
Bill Fifer, 64, and his girlfriend Emma Stephenson, 24, were in Fifer’s silver Ford F-150 flatbed truck looking for scrap metal to collect when the found a large blue Miller Bobcat 250 welder shortly before 1:30 a.m. March 7, police say in an arrest affidavit.
The welder, valued at $6,000, belonged to the Helm Group construction company in the new Interstate 74 Bridge construction zone on the 1300 block of Gilbert Street in Bettendorf.
The two tried to lift the 500-pound welder onto the flatbed but were unable to do so. They left to get Fifer’s GMC flatbed truck with a lifting crane attached to the bed from his rented workshop in Davenport so they could lift the welder, the affidavit says.
They went back to the construction zone shortly after 4 a.m. where they used the crane to take the welder.
The welder had attached welding cables, which ran up to the bridge’s structure, on which crews were working at the time.
The two had to cut the cables to take the welder, police say in the affidavit.
Fifer and Stephenson used a moving blanked and a barbecue grill cover to conceal the welder after they lifted it onto the truck.
They took the welder to property of a relative of Fifer on South Vermont Avenue in Davenport, where they removed the welder to a small flatbed trailer at the back of the property.
During a voluntary interview, Fifer admitted he and Stephenson took the welder and put it on his relative’s property, the affidavit says.
Fifer went with detectives to his brother’s property to recover the welder.
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He’s 64 and she’s 24. If I, at age 54, were to ask a 24-year-old woman out, she would probably burst out laughing, even if she did have a weird eye.
What’s so attractive about these older crinimal men?
DANG!
I gotta get me a 24 year old GF.
Did they try to weld her eye?
She’s a one-eyed Dick....sucker
Wording below mugshot says she’s 34.
I smell meth.
Looks like some White Supremacy going on there. Best to charge them with a hate crime.
I thought that was her IQ.
Because to them it beats being homeless and having to turn tricks to pay for your Meth addiction.
“I smell meth”.
Yep.
“The security camera DVR, drug paraphernalia and a baggie with 1.5 grams of methamphetamine were found in Fifer’s workshop.”
Acquire drugs.
Love is blind…in at least one eye
I remember an article from 20 years ago on how to get a stripper into bed if you’re an older guy. The first tip was to get some cocaine.
OK, that makes a little more sense, and probably more accurate. That means the guy isn’t Hugh Hefner-level stupid.
Gimme drugs, gimme drugs, gimme drugs!
Meth
She is very easy to understand.
1. she has daddy issues
2. Shes not attractive and cant ride the c*ck carousel
3. She went after an older guy because she can steal from him and take a bunch of stuff when he dies much, much earlier than her
Can’t spell IdIot without two eyes🤣
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