I reported previously on the fate of the team jersey belonging to Tom Brady. First reports indicate that it was stolen from the locker room after the game. The Texas Rangers are on the case. The team now says that the jersey may have been loaded onto the team truck inadvertently. I have an informant who states that the Texas Rangers are responsible for the theft. The theft occurred during one of their “sack dragging operations.”

I have had a long term relationship with this informant and he/she has provided information that I was able to verify as true and correct. Unfortunately, the informant has also supplied information that could not be verified and information that was so fantastic it defied belief. The fandango the CI does on the line between true and false keeps me from endorsing his/her information. Occasionally, the informant’s tidbits deserve consideration, this happens to be one of those times.

I am not endorsing the information, just noting that there are enough anomalies in the story being fed to the public that when compared to the CI’s story,  the informant’s story is viable.

Here we go. First the story in the “Boston Herald Traveler” In the early morning hours of February 9, 2017, the Massachusetts State Police stopped a Dodge with Texas plates, It was circling the Patriots facility in Foxborough, Massachusetts. They subsequently detained two Texas Rangers Rancid P Strange and Clench Reeves. The subsequent search also revealed the missing Brady game jersey and twenty-seven handguns, complete with gunbelts and holsters. The Rangers claimed the handguns were “backup guns.” No charges have been filed and the investigation continues.

According to the informant, Savage and Reeves were the culprits in the hat heist. The shirt was nothing more than an instrument to carry more hats. Once the feces hit the fan, they were charged with getting the jersey back to the Patriots in a deniable fashion. Their first thought was to announce the recovery of the shirt after prolonged negotiations with the thief. The Ranger Captain vetoed that idea saying, “Nobody would ever believe that a patriotic Texas would steal a Yankee rag.”

The official line is that a motorist in Nacogdoches observed the jersey blow out of the back of the Patriots team truck. The motorist turned the jersey over to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Strange and Reeves were assigned to return the jersey. They chased the truck across the United States only catching it when it pulled into the team training area.

“Boston Herald Traveler” February 11, 2017, The Massachusetts State Police along with Texas Senior Ranger Captain C.F. “Rock” Wall hailed the efforts of Rangers Rancid P Strange and Clench Reeves as one of the epic police chases of our time. Chase may be a misnomer since the target, the Patriots team truck and the Rangers took entirely separate routes. They never occupied the same roadway until pulling onto Patriots Property. So what started out as a theft possibly involving hundreds of thousands of dollars wound up with costing the Patriots the price of twenty-two world champion gimme caps. The Patriots were so pleased they sent one hundred seventy caps to Austin, Texas. One for each and every Texas Ranger.

There you have it. Is enough there that one is tempted to say sounds pretty good, you gotta give the CI the benefit of the doubt? No, I don’t. Last time he swore on his mother’s grave. I told him I wanted her casket as collateral. I’ve still got the damn thing! Mama, by the way, is a sixty-three-year-old KENO girl in Wendover, Utah.

Stay tuned for the further adventures of Rancid P Strange and Clench Reeves, Texas Rangers.