Ohio suspect faces charges
An Ohio man was returned to Washington County on Thursday to be arraigned on theft and other charges for allegedly stealing iPads valued at more than $14,000 a year ago.
Patrick Caprice Henry, 46, of Columbus, was brought to the county from the Mansfield (Ohio) Correctional Institution, where he is serving a 26-month prison term on felony charges of theft and failure to comply.
Henry is charged by state police with theft, receiving stolen property, felony retail theft and criminal mischief in connection with the incident June 19 at Walmart on Daniel Kendall Drive in West Brownsville. Police obtained a warrant for him a week after the theft.
Police said he reportedly entered the store through the main entrance just after midnight. He got a shopping cart and then put a styrofoam cooler in it. He then allegedly grabbed a set of bolt cutters and shovel from the hardware section before going to an employee-only area of the store where high-end merchandise is stored in a locked cabinet.
Henry used the bolt cutters to cut the lock off the cabinet, police said.
He allegedly took 42 iPads valued at $14,421 from the cabinet, placing the electronics in the cooler.
Police said he left by prying open the doors of the home and garden section. Once outside, he allegedly cut the lock on a cyclone fence before fleeing in a gold Ford Taurus with Ohio license plates.
Henry’s case in this county will be handled within six months, and he will be returned to Ohio to complete his sentence.
He was arraigned before District Judge Joshua Kanalis and placed in Washington County jail on $50,000 bond. A preliminary hearing is set for June 1 before Kanalis.