Event Brief
Bicycle-Riding Suspect Arrested in Tool Theft
By The BriefBrief · Sources (1)
Filed: Aug 23, 2026 at 2:00 PM ET
Summary: The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office says deputies arrested 56-year-old Joe Talmadge Butts on Aug. 22, a day after a reported tool theft from a parked work truck. Investigators said surveillance showed him riding a bicycle and pulling a trailer while taking multiple bags of tools from the truck bed at a business on Windhorst Road.
WHO: Joe Talmadge Butts, 56; Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office deputies
WHAT: Arrested on charges related to allegedly stealing hundreds of dollars in tools from a parked work truck
WHEN: Aug 22, 2026
WHERE: Hillsborough County, Florida
WHY: Butts was arrested for allegedly stealing hundreds of dollars’ worth of tools from a parked work truck.
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