Arrests Made in Tangipahoa Parish Copper Thefts

The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office has arrested five suspects in at least three separate recent copper theft cases.

1. The first case involved two stolen A/C units and a third unit stripped from a church on Highway 1065 in 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. Arrested were 47-year-old Robert Myrick, 46-year-old Jeremy Thompson,  and 45-year-old Robert Magee.  Myrick and Thompson were each booked on one count each of Burglary of a Religious Building, Theft, and Simple Criminal Damage to Property. Magee was booked on one count each of Simple Criminal Damage to Property and Theft. At the time of Magee's arrest, he was already in the Tangipahoa Parish Jail on a different copper theft case from earlier this month and, since this arrest, has been booked in a third copper theft case from the last week of June.
2. The second case began when 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, age 37 of Roseland, was arrested on an outstanding Felony Failure to Appear charge while Adam Warren, age 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 connect the items to the pending and possibly unknown cases.
3. The third case is an open copper theft investigation that detectives are currently asking the public’s help with. The theft was caught on camera on June 28, 2026 and involves an A/C condenser stolen from an 82-year-old man’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.