Real owners track down their property, want charges pressed against seller

A chainsaw that went missing from a jobsite on Wednesday was recovered quickly by the owners when they found it up for sale on Facebook Marketplace, and got it back from seller before he was booked by police on theft charges.

Per the report, officers arrested Ricky Nathan Channell, 29, of a Rockmart-area address on Wednesday afternoon when he was accused of having tried to sell the stolen chainsaw on Facebook Marketplace.

Police were initially called out to a Laurens Road address to take the theft report, where the foreman on the jobsite told police about the stolen chainsaw and how it was tracked down on Facebook Marketplace.

The foreman and others met up with the owner claiming they wanted to buy the $1,600 chainsaw at a bargain price of $800 from Channell, and were able to get it back from Channell without incident in the Ingle’s parking lot in Rockmart.

Police went back over to Ingle’s and met with the business owner, who told officers how much the chainsaw was worth and got Channell to come back to the grocery store parking lot to explain his side of the story.

He claimed he had gotten the chainsaw from a relative to sell, and had no proof of his discussion with that relative since he deleted the texts and the number the relative called him from came up as “unknown.”

Admitting that the relative gave him the chainsaw to post on Facebook Marketplace and without any way of contacting the relative, police arrested Channell on theft by receiving stolen property after the owner insisted that charges be filed and report made available.

Channell was still in custody on the single felony charge on a $5,000 bond as of this posting.