A Mountain Home man faced with a long list of charges stemming from incidents making up a mini-crime spree in June last year entered a guilty plea during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday. The mini-crime spree included an unusual theft involving a pair of new boots.Thirty-year-old Cory Elling was put on probation for six years and ordered to pay almost $2,800 in restitution.
Elling told police he was high on methamphetamine when some of the thefts occurred and could not recall if he committed the crimes.
He is charged with one unusual theft — taking a pair of new boots from a Mountain Home business and leaving his old shoes and socks behind.
Video surveillance at the business showed Elling picking up a tool and using it to cut off the anti-theft device attached to the boots and leaving the store wearing the new footwear.
The rash of thefts alleged to have been committed by Elling began on June 15th last year and ended with his arrest in Flippin June 27th.
Elling was charged with breaking into a number of storage units, taking a toolbox from a Mountain Home auction house, taking the new boots and stealing a truck. Police reported Elling was driving the stolen truck and wearing the stolen boots when he was arrested.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Elling had left the truck he had been driving behind when he took the second vehicle.
Police reported searching the truck Elling left behind and finding the components of a security system he was alleged to have stolen from one of the storage facilities he had burglarized.
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