A man and woman from Ozark County are behind bars in connection with a break-in at a storage unit in Baxter County after they were caught selling the stolen items at a yard sale. Incarcerated in the Baxter County Detention Center is 35-year-old Jesicca Renae Inman of Dora. Jailed in Missouri is 48-year-old Fred Tandy of Dora. He was extradited from Ozark County to Howell County Wednesday to face charges there and is awaiting extradition to Baxter County.
The latest incident involving the duo, with both having extensive histories of arrests in both Arkansas and Missouri, is a break-in at A-1 Storage on Buzzard Roost Road in late July. According to the arrest affidavit in the case, the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office was investigating the break-in, and the manager provided investigators surveillance video showing a vehicle registered to Tandy and Inman in front of the storage unit that was entered. The video shows a male cutting the lock off the unit and then both the male and female entering the unit and removing items.
The owner of the storage unit reported some of the items taken included a TV, a mountain bike, Play Station games, electronic equipment, DVDs and other items.
Less than three hours after the break-in, Tandy sold Play Station games with the same titles as the ones taken in the theft at a business in West Plains.
The Ozark County Sheriff’s Office had contacted Baxter County prior to the break-in at A-1 Storage to advise several similar incidents had occurred there. Ozark County investigators were shown the video from Baxter County, and they identified the two subjects as Tandy and Inman, because they are familiar with the duo from cases they had worked in past years involving them.
A spokesman for the Ozark County Sheriff’s Office said officers then went to the couple’s home in Dora to question them. When they arrived, the two were having a yard sale, with many of items for sale matching the description of those taken from the break-ins reported in both counties.
The two are each charged in Baxter County with felony breaking or entering and theft of property and a misdemeanor count of criminal mischief in the first degree. Bond for each is $20,000. They are also facing charges in Ozark County.
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