Snowmobile Found Burned and Abandoned on Little Rock Lake

(KNSI) — The Benton County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help to find out who left a snowmobile, torched almost beyond recognition, abandoned on Little Rock Lake.

According to a press release, a call came in about the burned snowmobile at about 10:00 the morning of January 15th. Investigators found the remains of a snowmobile burned down to the chassis about 50 feet from shore near Erdman’s Point on the east side of the lake. They said evidence at the scene suggests that the snowmobile began leaking a combustible fluid that ignited and that the frame and a few other “substantial metal parts” stuck in the lake’s frozen surface were all that was left behind.

Police said that the parts were pretty well stuck in the ice and left the scene as they found it with plans to return with additional resources to remove them, but on January 20th, someone else called police saying that the snowmobile parts previously found on the frozen lake had been removed from the ice and dumped alongside Sucker Creek Road Northwest.

Deputies responded to that scene and confirmed that someone had removed the snowmobile parts from the lake and left them alongside the road.

The Benton County Sheriff’s Office says it is looking for the snowmobile owner and whoever was responsible for dumping the parts.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the Benton County Sheriff’s Office at (320) 968-7201 or Tri-County Crime Stoppers at (800) 255-1301 or by clicking here.

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