A 27-year-old Wildwood man began serving a seven-month jail term this week in connection with the theft of a Villager’s truck.
Jeremy Wayne Quigley was arrested Aug. 12 by Sumter County sheriff’s deputies on a charge of grand theft after a pickup truck was stolen from a driveway in the Village of Bonnybrook.
Devon Christopher Daily, 43, who lives on Oak Bend Place in The Villages was also arrested. He was charged with with grand theft of a motor vehicle and felony burglary.
Deputies were called to the home in Bonnybrook after neighbors told a Villager who was out of town that his silver Ford F-150 was missing from his driveway. When the deputy arrived at the home from which the truck had been stolen, he noticed a silver marijuana grinder in the driveway. The deputy noticed that the front door to the home had been pried open. The deputy entered the home and found that nothing appeared to be missing, but that someone had used blue tape and caulk and had tried to repair the damage to the front door.
Deputies then made contact with Daily who admitted that he had entered his neighbor’s home and taken the key to the truck and called Quigley to let him know he was heading to Wildwood to “party,” according to the arrest report. Once there, they “smoked marijuana and drank beer all night,” Daily told deputies, according to the arrest report.
Quigley drove Daily back to The Villages the next morning and then drove back to Wildwood in the stolen truck, the arrest report indicated.
Quigley has been credited with 35 days already served in jail. He has been ordered to pay $80 restitution to the truck’s owner and he was fined $943. He will have to pay $50 for each day of incarceration at the jail.
Daily’s case is still pending. He is scheduled for a pretrial conference at 9 a.m. Dec. 9 in front of Judge William H. Hallman III.
Daily is free on bond.
