The State - News from March 16, 1988

San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies sought a man who fled his Hesperia home, where authorities found more than a dozen stolen cars and trucks buried on the desert property. For months, a handful of residents living near the home of Korey Cragg watched as he industriously buried the vehicles with a backhoe, authorities said. “He was a busy, busy boy,” Sheriff’s Detective Allan L. Foreman said of Cragg. “It appears he was working 24 hours a day . . . two or three cars a day.” Finally, after seeing Cragg bury an almost-new car, someone called authorities. After answering several questions from deputies, Cragg excused himself to go to the bathroom, then escaped out a back window, Foreman said. Three people in the house--Cragg’s wife, Kathy, 27, and Brian Powell, 26, and Sheryl Van Sanford, 28, both of Hawthorne--were booked for investigation of grand theft auto.