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Police Say Man Sold Stolen Car PartsSep 29, 2011 (Times Record - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- A Mountainburg man was arrested Tuesday after he allegedly sold more than $6,000 in stolen car parts to a local scrap metal dealer, according to a police report. At about 3 p.m. Tuesday, Robert Speir, a body shop manager for Shipley Motor Equipment, came to the information desk at the Fort Smith Police Department to report a theft from the business by an employee named Billy Wayne Jones, 32, according to the report. He told Officer Derek Harwood that he had been to several scrap metal dealers showing them pictures of the stolen items -- an air cooling condenser and a set of aluminum wheels with a combined valued of $6,092, the report states. Then he said he received a call from Matt McNally, a manager at Yaffe Iron & Metal, who said they possibly had some of the stolen items, which had been sold to their Van Buren location, according to the report. Speir told Harwood that he couldn't get any more information without an officer present, so Officer Nathan Sosebee met with another Shipley employee, James Carey, at Yaffe. Carey showed Sosebee the wheels and radiator on a pallet, saying they belonged to his company. One of the tires had the name "Big Mac" on them, one of Shipley Motor's most common customers, according to the report. Sosebee then spoke with McNally, who showed him photos and documentation that showed Jones selling the items at Yaffe's Van Buren lot, according to the report. After speaking with a detective about the evidence, Sosebee went to Shipley Motors and brought Jones in for questioning, where he admitted to taking and selling the items, according to the report. Jones was arrested on suspicion of theft of property valued at $500-$2,500. He was released from the Sebastian County Adult Detention Center on $1,500 bond, according to a Sebastian County jailer. ___ (c)2011 Times Record (Fort Smith, Ark.) Visit Times Record (Fort Smith, Ark.) at www.swtimes.com Distributed by MCT Information Services |