The cell phone signal was bad, and they ended the call, leaving the mother from Lufkin, Texas, feeling helpless.

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On March 13, nearly 3, 200 miles from Anchorage, police in Lufkin, Texas, pounced when they spotted Keyes driving 3 mph above the speed limit.

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Keyes was arrested in March in Lufkin, Texas.

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The woman on the other end of the line said they're sending trucks to the Chevron terminal to pick up gas for Lufkin, Texas, a hundred miles to the north on I-45, the main route into Houston from Dallas.

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Lufkin, based in Lufkin, Texas, makes pumping equipment that helps drillers extract more oil out of older fields or ones that need to be pumped because the oil and gas underground is not under enough pressure to be forced to the surface naturally.

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Blunk, 26, had served on the aircraft carrier the USS Nimitz for more than six years, working with the boilers and propulsion systems of the nuclear-powered vessel, and hoped to re-enlist in the military, according to his grandparents Thomas and Kay Blunk of Central, Texas, outside Lufkin.

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