(Stillwater) — A Tryon man who operates Able Pawn Shop in Cushing has been charged with buying stolen property without obtaining personal identification of the seller and a written declaration regarding how long the seller owned the property.
An arrest warrant was issued for licensed pawn broker Carl Wade Vineyard when the felony charge was filed Friday, but he has not yet been taken into custody, a jail spokesman told KUSH Monday. If convicted of knowingly concealing stolen property, Vineyard, 38, could be given as much as a five-year prison term, according to court documents filed by Payne County Assistant District Attorney Charles Rogers.
Cushing Police Officer Justin Sappington was sent on May 11 to a residence in the 1200 block of E. Ash Street where a woman reported that several DVDs, a Nintendo Wii system, Wii games, two Wii controllers, a Wii steering wheel and jewelry were taken from her residence, court records show. A neighbor told the officer that a man came to his house with a Nintendo Wii game system, games and controller, according to an affidavit by Cushing Police Detective Adam Harp. The neighbor said that he told the man to leave his house because he believed that the items were stolen, the affidavit said. The neighbor said that the man “made the comment that he was going to pawn the items that he needed a bus ticket back to Georgia and to check Able Pawn Shop,” the affidavit said.
The officer went to Able Pawn Shop where he asked the owner, Carl Vineyard, if anyone had pawned or attempted to pawn any of the described missing items, the affidavit said. “Vineyard said that someone came into the pawnshop about 45 minutes prior to him and pawned a Nintendo Wii console, four games and some controllers,” the affidavit said. “Officer Sappington asked Vineyard to see the pawn ticket and he said that he did not do one because it was very busy in the store.
A hold was placed on the property,” the affidavit said. After the victim provided the detective with the serial number to the Nintendo Wii console, which matched the game system at the pawnshop, Vineyard released the console and games to the Cushing officer, the affidavit said.
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