Crime & Safety
Sheriff: Acworth Burglar Sold Valuables to Pawn Shop
An Acworth man was arrested in connection with a residential burglary in Cartersville.
Flat screen TVs, Xbox games, jewelry, and a compound bow and shotgun are some of the valuables an Acworth man is accused of plundering from a Cartersville home.
Bartow County Sheriff's Office investigators Monday arrested 20-year-old Malcolm Ellis Oliver in connection with the alleged Feb. 10 burglary of an Oakridge Drive home. Oliver sold some of the property he took in the suspected break-in to a local pawn shop, Sheriff Clark Millsap said in a press release.
Authorities say in addition to recovering stolen property at the store, they found valuables taken in the burglary at Oliver's Cardinal Way home when he was arrested.
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The property has been returned to the alleged victim.
Oliver is housed in the Bartow County jail, pending a Superior Court bond hearing. He is charged with burglary and two counts of misdemeanor theft by deception, but faces criminal charges in another jurisdiction in an apparent unrelated case.
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When booked at jail, he also was charged with auto burglary.
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