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Man receives three years for copper wire theft May 5, 2008 - No reporter cited

Terrica Hendrix
Assistant Editor

NASHVILLE - Fifty-six pounds of stolen copper wire: $700.

Pawning the wire: $142.80.

Bond: $10,000

Your freedom: priceless.

On Wednesday, a Nashville man learned the hard way that you shouldn’t steal.

Ronnie Dwayne Homan, 31, entered a guilty plea on one charge of theft of property on Wednesday before Howard County Circuit Court Judge Ted Capeheart and was sentenced to three years in the Arkansas Department of Correction.

Homan was accused of stealing 56 pounds of copper wire from Jimmy Miller after the Howard County Sheriff’s Department received a complaint from Miller in late April.

According to an affidavit filed in the circuit clerk’s office, Miller told the HCSD that two employees had stolen copper wire from his land near the bypass in Nashville.

A receipt from L & W Salvage and Scrap Metals showed that 56 pounds of copper wire was sold on April 25.

A second suspect, Anthony Matthaei, has also been arraigned and was ordered to return on June 18 for pretrial and July 8 for trial.

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