Police: Lawnmower Heist Leads To Drug Arrests
WARSAW — A man and woman were both charged with drug-related offenses when police conducted a search related to a stolen lawnmower.
Jarrod Tyler Feldman, 23, 315 N. Columbia St., Warsaw, is charged with possession of a syringe, a level 6 felony; theft, a class A misdemeanor; and theft with a prior conviction, a level 6 felony. Colleen Marie Quinn, 35, 113 Mineral Springs Ave., Winona Lake, is charged with possession of methamphetamine and possession of a syringe, both level 6 felonies.
According to the Warsaw Police Department, officers were called to a residence on May 29 to investigate the theft of a lawnmower. The complainant told police she’d left her mower in her yard for a friend to pick up and had received word that when the friend showed up to collect the mower, it had been taken from the woman’s yard.
A WPD officer saw Feldman pushing a lawnmower at his residence the next day and noted that the mower had been freshly painted. The officer returned later to find several mowers at Feldman’s residence and was able to identify one of the mowers as the one stolen from the complainant’s house.
When questioned by police, Feldman told the interviewing officer that a man named Isaah Hough had given him the mower. Feldman was searched and, according to police, found to be in possession of a syringe. Police asked Feldman and received his permission to search his residence for additional stolen property. When officers entered the residence, they woke up Quinn, who had been sleeping, and asked her to exit the residence. Inside the dwelling, police reported finding a quantity of methamphetamine, as well as multiple syringes, which Quinn told police belonged to her.
On June 10, police interviewed Hough in the county jail and were told that while Hough admitted to stealing the lawnmower, Feldman had been present during the incident.