At least three times a week, Darin Mitchell gets the call.
Oil drums have been stolen. Copper wires were yanked. Other field equipment at an oil and gas facility was pilfered.
The Winkler County Sheriff dispatches his officers to investigate, but they rarely catch the crime in the act or find the stolen product, worth tens of thousands of dollars.
The West Texas county’s ten deputies are overextended, policing 841 square miles, a combination of neighborhoods, a downtown area and the oil and gas facilities surrounding…