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Kent Resident Charged With Theft From Local Supermarket
Putnam County Sheriff Donald B. Smith reports the arrest of a Town of Kent man following a report of a theft and possible assault at the Hannaford Supermarket in the hamlet of Carmel.
On October 15, 2007 at about 3:50pm the Putnam County 911 dispatch center broadcast a report fbr a possible assault in progress at the Putnam Plaza Shopping Center. A description of the suspect was provided to the responding law enforcement officers. Sheriffs Deputies and Police Officers from the Carmel Police immediately converged on the plaza and began a search for the subject involved in the incident.
Deputy Daniel Hunsberger conducted an initial interview with store management at the scene and broadcast additional descriptive information on the suspect. Within minutes Deputy Hunsberger located the subject hiding behind a construction vehicle within the plaza and detained him pending a more extensive investigation into the incident.
After reviewing video surveillance tapes and interviewing store personnel and witnesses it was determined that the suspect, who is a former employee, entered the market and collected beer, steak, scallops, clams and bacon valued at about $90 and placed them in an employees' break room. The suspect then re-entered the break room and bagged the items and exited the front of the store. When confronted by store management the subject pushed his way out and fled on foot.
Deputy Hunsberger arrested Timothy Corkery, age 19, of Laguna Rd. in Kent and charged him with Petit Larceny and with Burglary in the 3rd Degree (for entering an Unauthorized area of the store to secret the items) and transported him to the Sheriff's Department headquarters in Carmel for processing.
The defendant was arraigned before Judge Esposito of the Kent Justice Court on behalf of the Carmel Justice Court and remanded to the Putnam County Correctional Facility in lieu of $10,000.00 bail. The Burglary charge carries the most severe penalty with a possible sentence upon conviction of up to seven years incarceration and or a monetary fine not to exceed $5,000.00
Deputies were assisted in the investigation at the scene by Sergeant Johansen and Officer Williams of the Town of Carmel Police.
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