Month, ##, 2000
Fourth suspect in jewelry store break-in still at large
By Ryan Good
Staff Writer
Investigators believe a fourth suspect was involved in Friday's break-in at a Tiffin jewelry story.
Tiffin Police Detective Mike Marquis said a fourth person may have dropped the three known suspects off to steal the a car, with plans to meet them on the north side of Tiffin after the break-in at Jeffrey Jewelry, 2449 E. Market St.
"There is a guy that dropped them off, but I have nothing to confirm that. He supposedly dropped them off in the area," Marquis said, adding that he doesn't know the fourth suspects' identity.
"He was supposed to drive back to Cleveland," Marquis said.
The man was supposed to wait for the other three to meet him and if they didn't, he would drive back to Cleveland by himself. If they didn't meet back up, the other three were supposed to drive the stolen car back, the detective said.
Police received a call that three men had broken into the store and left, heading westbound on US 224 early Friday morning. When police located the vehicle near the airport, the driver didn't comply with orders to stop and led them on a six-mile chase in and out of Tiffin before stopping in a field in SR 100.
Two men -- Williams L. Sims, 19, and Roscoe Boyd, 36, of Cleveland -- were captured by police after a foot chase and charged with breaking and entering, felonious theft, grand theft auto and possession of criminal tools.
A third man -- identified by police as Selvin Cunningham, 42, of Parma -- eluded police and remains on lam.
About $40,000 was recovered from the vehicle, which was stolen from a the parking lot of the business in the Westgate Village Shopping Center. Some of the stolen merchandise had not been recovered.
Marquis said the accused men were looking for a General Motors make of car to steal because that is what they were better at stealing.
He also said the men are believed to have been casing the jewelry store for some time.