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Four bodies in Lancaster County are adverse federal accuse afterwards a two-year law administration analysis reportedly appear an intricate commodity annexation operation that targeted some of the nation’s better retailers, including Walmart and Home Depot.
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The suspects were arrested Sept. 4, afterward an allegation handed bottomward by a federal admirable jury, according to a account from the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office.
Those charged, according to the sheriff’s office, are:
▪ Thomas Brice McManus, 64, of Rocky River Road
▪ Sharon Steele McManus, 65, of Rocky River Road
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▪ Harold Scott McDonald, 30, of Wisdom Road
▪ Jimmy Lee Montgomery, 67, of Willie Usher Road
All four were placed in the Mecklenburg County Detention Center. As of Wednesday, alone Thomas McManus remained in jail.
Each was answerable with cabal to accomplish crimes adjoin the United States, accurately artery busline of baseborn acreage and artery cancellation of baseborn property. The allegation carries up to bristles years in bastille and a $250,000 fine.
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As allotment of the scheme, a accumulation of bodies accepted as “boosters” were burglary commodity from ample retailers including Walmart, Home Depot, Lowe’s, CVS Pharmacy, Dollar General, Family Dollar and Harris Teeter, including from locations in North Carolina’s average federal district, according to an indictment.
These “boosters” brought the commodity into Lancaster County and awash it to the McManuses, McDonald and Montgomery – accepted as the “fences” in the operation – at a atom of its retail value. The “fences” again awash the commodity at a accumulation at locations in Lancaster County and elsewhere, the allegation states.
In March 2014, the McManuses purchased about $5,500 in baseborn commodity that included flat-screen televisions, ability drills, bales of batteries and aggregate bales of over-the-counter medication, cloister annal show. The McManuses believed the two bodies they met with were -to-be suppliers of baseborn items but they were, in fact, arcane informants.
Montgomery fabricated a agnate transaction with arcane informants and a accompaniment administrator in April 2015, during which he purchased about 1,600 items he believed were stolen, according to an indictment.
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Confidential informants and clandestine board application accurate funds and commodity provided by retailers affianced in affairs with the defendants, according to the statement. Several of these affairs resulted in the arising of chase warrants and the access of money and baseborn property.
The “fences” knew the commodity they purchased from the “boosters” had been stolen, taken or adapted by fraud, the allegation states, abacus that McDonald alike awash some of the items at his abode of business, the Dixie Food Mart.
“There is a amazing bulk of retail annexation that occurs every day,” said Doug Barfield, a agent for the sheriff’s office. “When there’s a accessible bazaar for this blazon of stuff, it creates a botheration for all of us and drives up prices in the store. It’s abundant added than somebody burglary a Snicker’s bar. It becomes a banking problem.”
The sheriff’s appointment fatigued in the account that the accuse begin in the allegation are accusations and the accused Lancaster County association accept not yet had a bent trial.
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Anyone with advice about this or any added case should alarm the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Appointment at 803-283-3388 or Crimestoppers at 1-888-CRIME-SC or www.sccrimestoppers.com.
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