A second arrest has been made in connect with a burglary and theft at a home in the Fairview area of Marion County. According to the probable cause affidavit, 57-year-old Daniel Leroy Wessels of Flippin has been charged with felony residential burglary, as well as a misdemeanor count of theft.
Last month, 36-year-old Joshua Monistere, who reportedly has been living with his mother in Bull Shoals, was arrested on duplicate charges. Monistere is on parole from the Arkansas Department of Correction.
The arrests follow a report March 19th of the door of an unoccupied home being kicked open and items taken from the Fairview residence. The mother of a man living at the residence and out of town at the time of the incident told a Marion County Sheriff’s investigator a 42-inch flat screen television and an older type tv were missing.
The mother took the investigator to the garage at the residence where a motorcycle had been drug from a corner to the center of the room and leaned on a piece of wood, as if someone planned to return for it.
The mother also noted when she arrived to check on the residence in her son’s absence, she noticed the chain to the gate across the driveway had been cut.
Through the investigation, a female staying with Monistere at his mother’s Bull Shoals home advised he had borrowed her car without her permission. When he returned with the vehicle, he had a large flat screen tv, camouflage bedding and coat, and a Xbox.
When officers arrived at the Bull Shoals residence, they visited with Monistere outside the home. He denied involvement in the burglary and theft and took the officers inside to inspect his room. None of the missing items were found in his bedroom or initially observed in the living room.
A follow-up visit with the female indicated the missing flat screen was in the living room of the Bull Shoals residence, along with a camouflage comforter and pillows on the couch. She noted Monistere had been wearing a camouflage coat belonging to the victim.
Officers returned to the Bull Shoals residence and told Monistere they knew the missing items were in the living room. Having learned a second male was allegedly involved in the burglary, officers told him he could cooperate or “go down for the whole thing.”
Monistere told officers a man he doesn’t know well named “Dan” and later identified as Wessels showed up at the Bull Shoals residence and asked him to help move property from a home people had recently moved from. He said the man told him he could have a motorcycle in the garage at the Fairview residence but he wasn’t able to get it that night. He said he was trying to get someone to take him back to the house so he could ride the motorcycle home.
Monistere’s bond was set at $10,000, while Wessels was set at $20,500.
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