ARREST MADE IN MISSING FOOTBALL EQUIPMENT

  

A Brenham man is free on $50,000 bond after his arrest for theft of $25,000 worth of football equipment from the Brenham Youth Football League.

30-year old Isidro “Bo” Compean turned himself in to Brenham Police, Thursday afternoon.  He is charged with Theft between $20,000-and-$100,000 – a third degree felony.

The theft was reported by the league last Friday (July 31),

According to Brenham Police, 180 sets of helmets and shoulder pads were reported missing, along with Compean, the man charged with getting the equipment reconditioned.

According to League President Robbie Wooten, officials believed the equipment had been sent off to Riddell to be cleaned and re-painted—and that’s where they thought the equipment was all summer.

However, officials from the athletic equipment supply company told Wooten, when he called them last week, they never received the helmets and pads.

Wooten says he tried to contact Compean, who’d been in charge of the equipment but was told no one had seen him since last week.

Wooten says the donations to replace the stolen equipment have exceeded the costs and that any surplus will be donated to another children’s-related charity.