Milan Sweet, who lists an address in Summit, changed his plea to guilty in three cases filed in two counties during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday and was given 10 years in prison.
The 26-year-old Sweet faced charges of stealing a vehicle from his parents in Marion County and with taking an ATV and a second vehicle in Baxter County.
The Marion County case and one of the Baxter County cases were filed in March and the second case in this county in mid-July.
The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office was notified March 6th that a 2011 Polaris 500 Sportsman ATV had been taken from a man’s unattached garage. Sweet’s involvement in that theft came to light when he was arrested by the Mountain Home Police Department on unrelated charges and questioned by Criminal Investigators with the Sheriff’s Office. Sweet admitted taking the ATV.
The Marion County case resulted from a report that Sweet had stolen a vehicle from his parents. His father told investigators that Sweet had come to his parents’ home and asked for food. When the father went into the kitchen to find something for his son to eat, he turned around to discover his son was gone along with the keys to his wife’s vehicle which had been left on the kitchen counter.
The vehicle was later found wrecked. According to the probable cause affidavit, it was apparently not the first time Sweet had stolen a vehicle from his parents.
Sweet was also charged with taking a 2006 Chevrolet HHR, a compact sports utility vehicle, from a residence along Stonegate Drive in Mountain Home in mid-July. The victim told police that the door to her garage was open and the keys to the vehicle were in it along with her purse. She said that she had been working in her yard and when she went back into the residence, she left the garage door open. When she went out later to shut the garage door, she discovered her vehicle was missing.
The next day, the car was located by the Ozark County Sheriff’s Office in Gainesville and Sweet was taken into custody. The victim reported that a credit card in her purse had been used at a gas station in Gainesville.
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