FALLS CITY – Shayne Songer, 39, of Salem is charged in Richardson County with possession and theft on  April 3.

A sheriff’s office affidavit says deputies served a search warrant in Salem and say a generator-welder stolen from Songer’s former employer in Iowa was in his pickup truck.

After speaking with deputies, the affidavit says Songer led them to a 1997 Temco trailer on the property. The trailer with Western Engineering printed on it was also reported stolen.

The affidavit says Songer told investigators that he had purchased the equipment from someone in Iowa.