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Bettendorf pair held as suspects in theft of welder from I-74 Bridge construction site
Our Quad Cities ^ | May 26, 2021 | Linda Cook

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: bettendorf; construction; iowa; theft
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Nuts!
1 posted on 06/04/2021 6:49:01 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 100American; al baby; Allegra; BufordP; dp0622; DoodleBob; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; ...

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!


2 posted on 06/04/2021 6:50:52 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I gotta get me a 24 year old GF.


3 posted on 06/04/2021 6:52:15 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Did they try to weld her eye?

4 posted on 06/04/2021 6:53:27 PM PDT by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

She’s a one-eyed Dick....sucker


5 posted on 06/04/2021 6:53:29 PM PDT by wetgundog
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Wording below mugshot says she’s 34.


6 posted on 06/04/2021 6:53:45 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (I voted for prosperity, and I got poverty.)
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To: wetgundog

I smell meth.


7 posted on 06/04/2021 6:55:30 PM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Make America Great. Prosecute Dems who break the law!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Looks like some White Supremacy going on there. Best to charge them with a hate crime.


8 posted on 06/04/2021 6:55:43 PM PDT by No_Mas_Obama
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To: EvilCapitalist

I thought that was her IQ.


9 posted on 06/04/2021 6:55:44 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Because to them it beats being homeless and having to turn tricks to pay for your Meth addiction.


10 posted on 06/04/2021 6:55:45 PM PDT by fidelis (Defeatism and despair are like poison to men's souls. If you can't be positive, at least be quiet.)
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To: Lazamataz
I fights to the finish, cause I eats me spinach.....
11 posted on 06/04/2021 6:58:49 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople ("The issue is never the issue. The issue always is the Revolution." Lenin)
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To: Real Cynic No More

“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.”


12 posted on 06/04/2021 6:59:24 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Acquire drugs.


13 posted on 06/04/2021 7:05:40 PM PDT by Bogey78O
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Love is blind…in at least one eye


14 posted on 06/04/2021 7:05:52 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: fidelis

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.


15 posted on 06/04/2021 7:07:40 PM PDT by Bogey78O
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To: EvilCapitalist

OK, that makes a little more sense, and probably more accurate. That means the guy isn’t Hugh Hefner-level stupid.


16 posted on 06/04/2021 7:08:00 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: Bogey78O

Gimme drugs, gimme drugs, gimme drugs!


17 posted on 06/04/2021 7:08:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Florida: America's new free zone.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Meth


18 posted on 06/04/2021 7:09:17 PM PDT by 100American (Knowledge is knowing how, Wisdom is knowing when)
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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


19 posted on 06/04/2021 7:42:15 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Lazamataz

Can’t spell IdIot without two eyes🤣


20 posted on 06/04/2021 7:43:19 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (One Nation, Under Fraud Completely Visible, With Spying and Lying Too All.)
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