COVINGTON, TN (FOX 13 News) — A 47-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after he stole a $3,600 lawnmower from a Tractor Supply Co. and tried to sell it on Facebook, according to Covington Police Department. Police said that Bryon Stevens was taken into custody after detectives found the lawnmower at a home in Brownville. It all started about 3:30 p.m. Monday, when a man called the home improvement retail chain in Covington and said his manager from the “Haywood Tractor Supply Store” was sending him to pick up a lawnmower there, police said. Police said that the theft was of a Cub Cadet GT1 54-inch Zero Turn lawnmower. When the man arrived at the Tractor Supply store in Covington, employees did not check his identification and he left with the lawnmower in a truck pulling a trailer, police said. Police said that staff contacted the Haywood store and the manager there said that he had not requested a lawnmower transfer. Before he left with the lawnmower, the man used a debit card to purchase other items at the store, information detectives used to start tracking him, police said. On Wednesday, detectives received a tip that a similar lawnmower was for
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