A Villager and a 27-year-old Wildwood man were arrested Tuesday in connection with the theft of a truck and home break-in in the Village of Tall Trees.
Devon Christopher Daily, 43, who lives on Oak Bend Place in The Villages and Jeremy Wayne Quigley who lives in the Peppertree Apartments in Wildwood were taken into custody by Sumter County sheriff’s deputies.
Deputies were called to the home in Tall Trees after neighbors told a Villager who was out of town that his silver Ford F-150 was missing from his driveway. When the deputy arrived at the home from which the truck had been stolen, he noticed a silver marijuana grinder in the driveway. The deputy noticed that the front door to the home had been pried open. The deputy entered the home and found that nothing appeared to be missing, but that someone had used blue tape and caulk and had tried to repair the damage to the front door.
Deputies then made contact with Daily who admitted that he had entered his neighbor’s home and taken the key to the truck and called Quigley to let him know he was heading to Wildwood to “party,” according to the arrest report. Once there, they “smoked marijuana and drank beer all night,” Daily told deputies, according to the arrest report.
Quigley drove Daily back to The Villages the next morning and then drove back to Wildwood in the stolen truck, the arrest report indicated.
Someone else contacted the sheriff’s office to report that someone had tried to sell him the stolen truck, the arrest report stated.
Quigley is charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle and Daily is charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle and felony burglary.
Both were transported to the Sumter County Detention Center where Daily’s bond was set at $7,000 and Quigley’s bond was set at $2,000.
