A Mooresville man is in the Vance County Detention Center facing a slew of charges in connection with burglary and the theft of a truck full of landscaping equipment.
Henderson Police arrested Herman Ray Terry, Jr., 35, Thursday night about 10 p.m. in the area of Hillside Ave., according to Chief Marcus Barrow.
In a statement to WIZS News, Barrow said Terry was in possession of a 2003 Isuzu commercial vehicle. The truck, valued at more than $45,000, contained in excess of $20,000 dollars of commercial-grade landscaping equipment.
The commercial vehicle belonged to Matrix Lawn Landscaping based in Mooresville.
Officers were initially unable to reach the company or its owner due to the time, but contact was made with Mooresville Police Department. Mooresville Police Department went to the business and found that the business had been burglarized.
The Mooresville Police Department was then able to make contact with the owner of the business, and he verified the vehicle and equipment were stolen and that Herman Ray Terry Jr. had been recently terminated as an employee.
The vehicle and its equipment were brought back to the Henderson Police Department and kept until the company could come and retrieve it.
Terry was originally charged with possession of a stolen motor vehicle and stolen goods. Magistrate Cowan issued a $26,000 secured bond.
Mooresville Police Department then obtained warrants for larceny of a motor vehicle, felony larceny, breaking and entering, possession of stolen goods, and injury to real property. Magistrate Stewart gave Terry an additional $80,000 bond.