A Jefferson City brother and sister have been charged in connection with a stolen property case.
Mark Bax, 46, is charged with unlawful possession of a firearm and receiving stolen property. He was charged earlier this month with two counts of second-degree burglary and receiving stolen property in a burglary case in Cole County.
Sheila Bax, 41, is charged with possession of a controlled substance and receiving stolen property.
In December, authorities took a report of a burglary of a storage unit in the 4800 block of Old Lohman Drive, where taxidermy mounts, animal traps, arrowheads, long guns and a TV had taken, according to Missouri Highway Patrol probable cause statements.
Mark Bax was interviewed because he had stolen items from a storage unit in Eugene. He said he was in possession of the stolen items but had bought them from someone else.
That individual told authorities he and Mark Bax had burglarized the Old Lohman storage unit, and Mark had sold many of the animal mounts to a bar in Tebbetts. An employee of the bar said the mounts were purchased from Bax and they were turned over to authorities. It was also learned at this time Mark and Sheila Bax may have sold some of the stolen guns to Sheila's boss.
This week, Sheila contacted her boss asking if he wanted to buy some firearms from her brother. Her boss then met with the Bax siblings at his business on East High Street, purchasing four guns for less than $500. The boss provided authorities a series of text messages, in which Sheila expressed her intention to sell the guns for her brother and asked her boss to run checks to see if the guns had been entered as stolen.
Sheila was stopped Wednesday morning in the 700 block of Dix Road for a driving violation.Officers using a K-9 unit searched the vehicle and found Sheila's wallet above the driver's-side sun visor with a clear plastic bag containing 2 grams of methamphetamine.