Something out of place.(EXERCISING THE RIGHT)(theft prevented)

Dale Rowin, a co-owner of Tom's Tree Place of Lubbock, Texas, first suspected no-good when he saw a length of hose over a fence at the company's maintenance garage. Upon doing some investigating, he noticed some suspicious tire tracks in the dirt. To test his hunch that the company was being visited by intruders, he smoothed the dirt so that he could watch for fresh tracks.

Fresh tracks did appear, and so he set up a surveillance system. Subsequently, he learned that thieves were prying open a lock to steal diesel fuel. To put an end to the thievery, Rowin and his son, Josh, decided to catch the criminals in the act, and they began to guard the site at night. On their third consecutive night of keeping watch, on August ...