Photo: Clayton Robert Moore
The victim of a burglary was surprised when a stranger stepped out of her shed in the early morning hours of May 17 and waved at her.
The woman said she had never seen the man before. She told a 911 operator she had heard noises earlier that morning as if her garage door was being opened and closed.
She reported when she got up a few hours later, her shed door and doors to a vehicle she owned were also opened.
When a Baxter County deputy responding to the call arrived at the house along Hopewell Hollow Road in Norfork, he found 40-year-old Clayton Robert Moore inside the shed wearing a ball cap, a large black plastic trash bag over his body and a pair of boots.
Moore appeared in Baxter County Circuit Court Thursday and entered a not guilty plea to the charges against him. He was ordered to reappear in circuit court June 25.
Moore told the deputy he was in the shed gathering items belonging to his uncle. He said he had been there during the night and had even eaten a meal with the victim.
The victim said Moore’s story was untrue. The deputy also reported Moore seemed “fidgety and confused” and, at one point, said his wife was with him. She was never located.
A pair of overalls was hanging on the victim’s front porch. A pair of boots and a pocketknife were also found.
Moore is charged with residential burglary, breaking or entering a motor vehicle, breaking or entering a structure and first-degree criminal mischief.
His bond is set at $25,000.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Moore had allegedly broken open a sack of concrete and scattered the powder over a truck owned by the victim. There were items from the shed that had been placed in the truck.
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