March 11th, 2011 02:58pm
Three people accused of stealing copper drainage piping from the Winter Park Presbyterian Church on Wrightsville Avenue were arrested Thursday evening by two plainclothes detectives who reportedly witnessed the theft, according to the Wilmington Police Department.
The three suspects–54-year-old Ronald Dale Pace, 40-year-old John Eric Lewallen and 51-year-old Nancy Clark Carter — were arrested after the detectives saw them loading the church’s drainage piping into a blue Jeep parked on Maple Avenue, which runs parallel to where the church is located on 4501 Wrightsville Avenue, police said.
Carter was charged with standing on the corner as the lookout while the other two men carried out the theft.
Lucy Crockett, a department spokeswoman, said the detectives stopped the suspects before they drove away and recovered the piping.
All the suspects were charged each with felony larceny and first-degree trespassing and property damage. The last known address for the three suspects was a local homeless shelter, Crockett said.
Pace and Lewallen were still in the New Hanover County jail Friday under a $10,000 bond. Carter was released on an unsecured bond.
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