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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A 52-year-old Sacramento antheral was recovered blameworthy of a bid of high-volume thefts of catalytic converters successful Visalia, the Tulare County District Attorney said.
The DA says successful 3 abstracted instances from March 2020 to September 2020, and an further lawsuit successful July 2021, Sean Michael Pelton, targeted inferior trucks successful the AT&T work gait successful Visalia.
Using bolt cutters to chopped holes successful the yard’s information obstruction successful each instance, Pelton stole a full of 73 converters.
The DA says the Visalia Police Department utilized surveillance video, geofence data, and edifice and compartment telephone records to place Pelton arsenic a suspect,
Pelton was convicted of 73 counts of expansive theft, 3 counts of attempted expansive theft, and 4 counts of vandalism. The assemblage recovered existent the aggravating factors that crimes took readying and sophistication and progressive stealing thing of value.
Pelton besides admitted that helium possessed anterior convictions and situation terms, that helium was connected parole oregon probation during the crimes, and that his show connected probation oregon parole was unsatisfactory.
Pelton possesses implicit 20 anterior felony convictions, mostly for theft, burglary, and vandalism, passim California.
