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Quincy man convicted of theft
A Grant County jury found a Quincy man guilty of theft in the third degree last week.
At trial, prosecutors established that at about 6:45 a.m. on March 3, 2010, Travis Harris was witnessed on a bicycle riding down I Street SE in Quincy when he and an accomplice stopped by a pickup truck parked in front of the house of Donald Wheelock.
Harris and the other individuals talked to each other for a few minutes and then left. Several minutes later, they came back around on their bicycles and once again stopped by the pickup truck parked in front of Wheelock’s home.
They then looked over the fence and into Wheelock’s back yard. They talked to each other for a few minutes, and then Harris stood outside the fence while the other individual went inside the fence and came out seconds later with Wheelock’s Lincoln welder.
The two were observed by an additional witness as they fled on their bicycles, towing the welder down Wheelock’s driveway.
At that time, Quincy police officer Sal Mancini was called to the theft in progress. Minutes after receiving the 911 call, Mancini arrived at the house of Richard Zimbelman, one of the witnesses and a neighbor of Wheelock.
Mancini talked to Zimbelman about what he observed. Mancini then drove around the neighborhood and saw the co-defendants walking out of an alley at the intersection of 4th and J Street. He talked to them, but they were evasive with their answers. Zimbelman and Janeil Kikuchi, another witness and neighbor, arrived on scene at that time and made an identification based on the clothing.
At trial, Harris testified that he was walking around the area, but did not commit the crime. The jury returned the guilty verdict after deliberating for under an hour.
Harris is scheduled to be sentenced in late July and faces a possible year in jail.
Harris has prior convictions for theft, possessing burglary tools, obstruction and controlled substance violation.
chris sasser commented, on July 27, 2010 at 2:08 a.m.:
How can a man be found guilty for the clothes on there back and not bye there faces. Are people found guilty or innocent. The criminals were on bikes these people were walking and where was the stolen welder if you would like to see a curupt town then come to my court date and see where witneses mess up on the stand and still are acountable on the stand the date is july 29th in mose lake and i am the other person the officer stoped while walking.
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