LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas man is dealing with expenses after he allegedly stole quite a few welders and different objects totaling greater than $11,000 over a interval of six weeks after which offered them for a revenue.
Adam Gilliland, 35, was arrested on March 9 throughout a car cease after police noticed a pickup truck, not too long ago spray painted with a mismatched license plate. The day earlier than the arrest, Las Vegas Metropolitan police had launched pictures from a surveillance digital camera of two suspects in a string of thefts at residence enchancment shops. A kind of suspects is now recognized as Gilliland.
In keeping with the arrest report, Gilliland focused Lowe’s residence enchancment shops a minimum of 9 instances from Dec. 26, 2022, by way of Feb. 14, 2023, to steal objects to resell them. The report stated he stole 9 welders, 2 instruments and batteries, 1 generator, and a stress washer in addition to another objects. He used the identical approach throughout a lot of the thefts.
Gilliland would ask a gross sales affiliate to unlock a safety case and take out an costly device for him to buy and he would put it in his cart and head towards the cashier with the gross sales affiliate accompanying him. Nevertheless, when he bought to the cashier, he would run with the cart out of the shop and put the stolen merchandise in a white pickup truck, and drive off, the report acknowledged.
At one retailer, “The affiliate makes an attempt to confront Gilliland when Gilliland acknowledged, “don’t attempt to cease me” and reaches into his pocket as if to seize a weapon, in accordance with the report.
A police officer who had performed investigations involving Gilliland prior to now reviewed a car cease made on Gilliland in early February and confirmed it was him and he was in the identical white Dodge Ram pickup that had been seen on surveillance movies on the theft scenes, the report stated.
Gilliland was as a consequence of make his preliminary look in Justice Court docket this morning on 11 counts of housebreaking of a enterprise and 1 courtroom of taking part in organized retail theft.
Police didn’t launch info on the opposite suspect.
