JOHNSON COUNTY, Iowa -- An eastern Iowa man has been accused of illegally chopping down over 100 trees that weren't his.

According to court records, back in April the Iowa Department of Natural Resources was notified of possible tree theft at a rural Johnson County property. The property owner told DNR officers that he noticed several trees on his property had been chopped down earlier this year.

The property owner also told the DNR that his neighbor, who was a crop lease tenant identified as Tyler Robert Rogers, claimed that a logger friend had gotten "carried away" and chopped down trees that belonged to the property owner, court records state. Later, Rogers allegedly gave the property owner a check for $30,000.

Court records state that the property owner had the felled trees appraise

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