An Oxford woman and her live-in boyfriend were arrested Thursday after her father reported his $50 weed eater missing – the second time he’s made such a report in a little more than two years.
The father told a Sumter County deputy that his former sister-in-law said she had driven 33-year-old Kathryn Marie Gill and 31-year-old Justin Ryan Sanders to a pawn shop in Bushell so they could pawn a weed eater matching the description of the one missing from his County Road 246 home. The ex-sister-in-law said she left the couple at the pawn shop “due to the suspicious nature of the incident,” a sheriff’s office report states.
Thursday’s incident marked the second time since February 2016 that Gill has been involved a pawning incident involving one of her father’s weed eaters.
Both Gill and Sanders were taken into custody late Thursday night and transported to the Sumter County Detention Center. Both were charged with larceny/petit theft and dealing in stolen property, though Gill’s petit theft charge was listed as a second offense. There were being held on $2,500 bond apiece.
Neither Gill nor Sanders are strangers to the Sumter County Detention Center, having both been held there several times in the past few years. Records show that Gill was booked into the facility on Feb. 12, 2016 on a larceny/grand theft of dwelling charge; and again on Oct. 12, 2017 on a larceny charge and three out-of-county warrants.
Records show that Gill was in the jail April 9, 2013 and held on $10,500 bond, though his charges aren’t listed on the jail’s website. And he was back in the facility on Oct. 3, 2013 on a non-moving traffic violation.
