Two men have been arrested in connection with a string of burglaries in the Stover area…including a break-in at the Gravois Mills Fire Protection District G4 station near Mallard Bay Campground. Morgan County Sheriff’s Sgt. Mike Nienhuis says Vernon Dewitt and Gary James, both of Stover, arrested by officers on a suspicious vehicle call in the Lake Forest Estates Road area, confessed to multiple burglaries. Items recovered from the Gravois Mills fire station burglary include two leaf blowers, two chainsaws, a pair of
bolt cutters, a flat head axe, two weed eaters and a riding lawn mower. Dewitt and James, along with a third man who was arrested on drug charges, are being held in the Morgan County jail.