Two more Crocker men charged in burglary case

Two more men from Crocker have been charged in connection with a burglary at a Jefferson City business earlier this month.

Arnold Hall, 55, is charged with second-degree burglary, first-degree tampering and fraudulent use of a debit device.

Brandon Smith, 26, is charged with second-degree burglary and first-degree tampering.

Last week, William Loveall, 39, of Crocker, was charged with two counts of second-degree burglary, two counts of first-degree tampering and one count of felony stealing.

The burglary occurred just before 1 a.m. Sept. 2 at Central Electric Cooperative on Jefferson Street, according to a Jefferson City Police Department probable cause statement.

Security camera video allegedly shows Loveall and Hall entering a building where several fleet vehicles for the cooperative were parked. Around 3 a.m., Loveall and Hall are seen in two separate vehicles belonging to the cooperative. At 9:35 a.m., Loveall and Smith returned to the cooperative and later left, taking two more vehicles belonging to the cooperative.

One of the vehicles taken was stopped last week in Iberia. Hall was the driver and Loveall the passenger in the vehicle. A search of the vehicle turned up other items stolen from the cooperative on the night the break-in occurred. Authorities later were notified of photographs that showed Hall using a debit card taken from one of the stolen vehicles.

When questioned by authorities, Loveall denied being directly involved in the break-in but gave investigators the location of one of the vehicles stolen; it was located in Lebanon. Loveall said he didn't actually steal the vehicle.

Court records show Loveall was out on probation and parole at the time of his arrest and he has a "substantial history of violence and property crimes."

Smith was taken into custody after being identified from security camera footage which allegedly showed him taking one of the Central Electric Cooperative vehicles. He was spotted at a gas station in Iberia, and gas station security camera footage showed Smith wearing the same clothes he was seen in at the time of the burglary.

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