August 25, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
Three men found locally with fake credit cards along with $30,000 worth of stolen checks out of Kentucky have been arrested by Smithville Police as part of a multi-state and federal investigation into crimes including mail theft and armed robbery.
25-year-old Anthony Marquall Love of McMinnville and formerly of Flint, Michigan, 19-year-old Rodney Ray Lee Sheridan Jr. of Columbus, Ohio, and 18-year-old Raymond Anton Walker also of Columbus, Ohio have been charged locally with two counts of criminal simulation and theft over $10,000 (possession of stolen mail). All three men are currently being held in the DeKalb County Jail under bonds of $200,000 each.
The suspects are also persons of interest in at least one-armed robbery of a US Postal delivery employee in Kentucky which enabled the perpetrators to commit the mail thefts.
“The description of the people who robbed the postal worker matched the description even down to the car of the people we have,” said Smithville Police Chief Mark Collins.
According to Chief Collins, the trio tried unsuccessfully Saturday night, August 20 to use a fake credit card to purchase merchandise from both the local Walmart and Dollar General store on South Congress Boulevard. A similar scam was successfully carried out by others in May at Walmart in Smithville where $9,000 worth of merchandise was stolen. No arrests have been made in that incident.
At the time of their arrests Saturday night, the trio had in their…
