Photo: Anthony Fieger Jr.
A man facing a number of criminal charges, including residential burglary and theft of property, pled guilty in Baxter County Circuit Court late last month.
Thirty-four-year-old Michael Anthony Fieger Jr. has been an inmate in the Baxter County Detention Center since being booked into the facility Oct. 23 last year.
He was sentenced to eight years probation and ordered to pay $700 in restitution during the court session.
Fieger, 23-year-old Jonathan Christopher Lundry and the victim were all living at the Graceland Courts Apartments in Henderson when the theft took place, according to the probable cause affidavit.
Photo: Jonathan Christopher Lundry
On Sept. 23 last year, Baxter County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call about the theft. They reported the victim had “a strong odor of intoxicants coming from his person” and that information he provided was “sometimes confusing.”
The victim told them he had been extremely intoxicated the night before and had passed out on a couch in the unit where Fieger and Lundry lived.
He said he woke up the next morning and walked to his apartment and discovered his key ring was not on a belt loop where he normally kept it.
He said he used a spare key to get in and saw someone had been in the house, unlocked his personal safe and stole a number of items.
Missing from the safe were a number of knives, Xanax pills prescribed for the victim, and gold and silver coins — some of which were in plastic cases.
The victim told investigators he went back to the unit occupied by Fieger and Lundry and found his keys on the couch where he had slept after passing out the night before.
Investigators discovered Fieger and Lundry and an unknown female had gone to a pawnshop in Ash Flat the day after the theft where an attempt was made to sell some of the stolen coins.
Lundry made the mistake of using his own ID information at the pawnshop. A set of double Eagle coins was purchased by the pawnshop.
Staff at the shop said Lundry had come into the business, and Fieger had been waiting in the car, but did “take an active role in negotiating the price for the coins.”
Investigators were also told by workers at the pawnshop that more coins were presented for sale, but the offer was declined since there was a feeling they had been stolen.
A search warrant was obtained for the unit at Graceland Court apartments occupied by Fieger and Lundry. It was described as a one-room cabin with a bathroom.
When the warrant was served, investigators found a tube containing 21 gold coins, 45 silver coins and 13 copper coins.
Seven knives were located, six of which were identified as having been taken from the safe in the victim’s residence. A medicine box with the victim’s name on it was also recovered.
In addition to charges of residential burglary and theft of property, Fieger was also accused of failure to comply with sex offender reporting requirements.
According to information contained in the National Sex Offender Registry, Fieger was convicted on two charges of aggravated indecent liberties with a child stemming from an incident that took place in Oakley, Kansas, in late July 2010.
According to the registry, the then 23-year-old Fieger was accused of having inappropriate sexual contact with a 15-year-old-female.
Fieger is listed as a Level 3 offender, meaning he presents a high risk of reoffending and a high degree of danger to the public.
When investigators checked into the background of the two men, they found Lundry had only misdemeanor offenses in his past, but Fieger was reported to have had a “lengthy criminal history out of three states.”
On the sex offender registry, Fieger was listed as living in Mountain View, Missouri. He was reported not to have registered in Baxter County at the time the theft at Graceland Court took place.
The case against Lundry remains open. He is currently set for a jury trial.
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