Undercover sting operation for wanted felon

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (KAUZ) – David Charles Jones, a wanted felon was once taken into custody after being stopped by way of police at Walmart on Greenbriar Road within the early morning hours of August 14.

“One of our managers for a local apartment here in town called the department to report that his maintenance shed or his equipment shed had been broken into and multiple power tools had been stolen,” Wichita Falls Sgt. Charlie Eipper mentioned.

Wichita Falls investigators temporarily were given concerned, however because it seems the sufferer had already performed one of the crucial leg paintings for them. According to the arrest affidavit, the sufferer became to Facebook Market Place the place he found out his actual make and type air conditioner for sale by way of a person going by way of the title “Mulaman” and was once 100% certain the pieces indexed had been those stolen from his shed.

“So some of our officers got online to buy the equipment from the suspect there was a meeting they bought the equipment and they positively identified it,” Eipper mentioned.

At that point detectives and undercover brokers started surveillance on Jones.

“Several hours later break into another equipment shed once that occurred they took him into custody,” Eipper mentioned.

The suspect has been arrested for an inventory of crimes together with attack, housebreaking, contempt of court docket, legal trespass, using whilst intoxicated, and drug ownership.

“They had been accustomed to so after they noticed his image they knew who he was once, he extensively utilized his ultimate title as his moniker on Facebook Market so it was once lovely simple to spot him.>

Jones stays within the Wichita County Jail on a mixed bond of $121,001.

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