Texas A&M System’s Forest Service Cops Fight Timber Theft

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A special unit of law enforcement officers with the Texas A&M Forest Service spends their days chasing an unusual kind of criminal. Officers like Josh Mizrany with the Texas A&M Forest Service, a state agency within The Texas A&M University System, focus their efforts on stopping timber thieves across the state who steal millions of dollars worth of trees every year. A serious problem, tree theft occurs throughout Texas, but thieves mostly are active behind the Pine Curtain of East Texas, wher…