BARBERTON: A 26-year-old Bath Township man accused of breaking into a Norton home now faces two probation violations.
Charles R. Seeley of Granger Road was charged with aggravated burglary, robbery and felony theft when he was arrested Jan. 5.
Seeley had spent that morning in Stow Municipal Court for a pretrial on a charge of possessing a drug abuse instrument, a misdemeanor. The case is assigned to Judge Kim Hoover.
Around 2 p.m., a woman returning to her parents’ home in the 3400 block of Hametown Road ran into a man as he was leaving the garage entrance to the home with the family’s television under his arm.
Police said the man shoved the woman, threw the television into the back of his pickup, and sped away.
The woman was able to give police a partial plate number. She also recognized a University of Akron parking sticker in the vehicle.
Seeley was identified as a suspect and arrested at his home around 8 p.m.
Some stolen jewelry was recovered from a Stow jeweler. The television, which broke when it was thrown into the back of the truck, was recovered in an Akron Dumpster. Seeley told police they would find it there, according to Norton Chief Thad Hete.
Last week, Seeley was slapped with two probation violations from Summit County Common Pleas Court. He is on probation for a previous burglary case, trafficking in heroin, heroin possession and other charges.
Court records incorrectly stated that on the day of the Norton burglary, Seeley had pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge before Hoover. There was no plea before Hoover that day, just a pretrial hearing on a charge of possession of a drug abuse instrument. That case has a February trial in Hoover’s court.
Seeley remains in the Summit County Jail in lieu of a $250,000 bond while he awaits action by a Summit County grand jury on the Norton charges.