2 convicted, 1 pleads in Valley theft ring

YOUNGSTOWN — Two of the people who bought stolen goods from a Mahoning Valley theft ring and sold them to other people were convicted Tuesday on receiving-stolen-property charges.

David Thistlewaite, 36, of Arthur Street in Canfield, was convicted Tuesday of 10 counts of receiving stolen property in a two-day trial heard by Judge Thomas P. Curran of Cuyahoga County, a visiting judge handling all the theft-ring cases in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court.

Co-conspirators Bobbie J. Mock, 39, of Canfield Road, Austintown, and Gennaro Bellard, 42, of Roosevelt Drive, Youngstown, testified that Thistlewaite bought six motorcycles and four 4-wheelers stolen Jan. 10, 2006, from Gollan’s Honda on Market Street in Youngstown.

Another of the 15 people named in the theft ring, Timothy Marino, 42, of Ridge Road in Cortland, appeared before Judge Curran on Tuesday and pleaded guilty to nine counts of receiving stolen property.

Marino is one of three GM Lordstown workers who took orders from fellow GM employees for items they wanted to buy and relayed the information to the thieves in the operation, said Jeff Hoolihan, a Warren police detective.

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