Joint operation resulting teenage suspect arrested for arson
VIDEO: Joint operation resulting teenage suspect arrested for arson By Tamlyn Cochran | March 8, 2021 at 6:25 PM CST - Updated March 8 at 10:18 PM
TEXAS COUNTY, Okla. (KFDA) - An arson investigation was conducted jointly by Texas County Sheriffâs office and the State of Oklahoma Department of Agriculture resulted in an arrest of a teenage man.
At a span of over a three-month period, including four seperate fires that damaged approximatly 336 residual crop bales and approximatley 900 acres of CRP Grass and prairieland, 18-year-old Justin Wynn Talmadge was taken into custody.
Talmadge gave a full confession to a Texas County Sheriff Investigator and an Agent for the Department of Agriculture, admitting to igniting the fires and then reporting the fires.