Sedalia Police Crime Reports and Pettis County Court Cases: Afternoon of March 12, 2014

The following Sedalia Police crime reports and Pettis County court cases are from the afternoon of Wednesday, March 12, 2014.

Thieves steal clothing and electronic equipment from a storage unit

At 11:16 Monday morning, Sedalia Police took a burglary complaint from a victim in the 1400 block of West Main Street. According to the victim, someone cut the lock off of her storage unit and stole some clothes, a television, and other electronic equipment. There were no suspects at the time of the police report.

The following felony cases were heard by Judge Robert L. Koffman this morning:

Wyatt Mitchell, 39 of Sedalia, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for four drug offenses.  At a trial conducted Jan. 22 and 23, the defendant was found guilty of possession of more than five grams of marijuana with intent to deliver and three counts of possession of a controlled substance.  He was tried as a persistent drug offender, so the 10-year sentence for possession with intent to deliver will be served without the possibility of parole.

Joshua Reever, 29 of Warrensburg, pleaded guilty to passing bad checks, admitting that on June 24, 2012, he wrote a bad check for $1,036 to a local auction service.  He was sentenced to two years in prison to run concurrently with another sentence.

Carlos Staten, age 26 of Sedalia, was sentenced to four years in prison for stealing, a crime committed Dec. 9 at Bothwell Regional Health Center. Sedalia Police arrested the Staten for the offense after reviewing video recordings made at the time of the theft, and he later confessed to Detectives of the Sedalia Police Department.