One of three out-of-state men charged with buying merchandise at the Harrison Home Depot store with a fraudulent credit card and returning the items for cash at the chain’s Mountain Home location appeared during a recent session of Baxter County Circuit Court.
Ronnie Jones of Northville, Michigan pled guilty to theft of property and was put on probation for five years.
The amount of victim restitution is yet to be determined.
Jones case was inactive for some time because he could not be located. The company that wrote his bond surrendered him to the Baxter County Detention Center September 25.
Two other men, 25-year-old Remekied Henderson-Hall, Jr., and 34-year-old Matthew Hinkle, were also charged with theft of property.
Hinkle pled guilty and was given five years probation in April. Henderson-Hall’s case is still open. He is reported to be serving a sentence in the California Department of Corrections. A hold has been put on him by Baxter County.
At the time they were arrested, Hinkle listed an address in Cedar Hill Texas while Henderson-Hall apparently lived in Michigan.
Home Depot corporate security staff monitored the three men as they went from store to store.
They were seen on surveillance cameras at two Home Depot locations in Missouri and two in Arkansas.
Mountain Home police were called to respond to a theft report at the Home Depot store on about 6:30 p.m., October 14, 2021.
The three men were in their vehicle on the nearby Lowe’s parking lot and taken into custody.
According to the probable cause affidavit, Jones first said he purchased the items for cash. He then switched stories and stated he used the fraudulent credit card to buy the items.
He said he had been given cash back for the stolen items.
Hinkle and Henderson-Hall refused to talk at the time they were taken into custody according to police.
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