MEXICO – The second of three people suspected of stealing more than $11,000 in movie DVDs from the Mexico Wal-Mart store in August remained behind bars Tuesday afternoon in Paris.
Jarrett Rossi, 31, whose last known address was 369 Tenney Hill Road in Casco, was arrested Sunday by Maine Trooper Andre Paradis and charged with theft by unauthorized taking.
Rossi failed to post bail of either $5,000 cash or $25,000 surety and was incarcerated at Oxford County Jail.
Rossi and Wendell L. Gildard, 41, of 60 Jugtown Road, Naples, are to be arraigned at 9 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, in Oxford County Superior Court in Paris.
According to a court assistant in Paris on Tuesday, it was not immediately clear if a third suspect, Tammy J. Blanchard, 34, of 47 Cumberland St., Portland, would also be arraigned at that time. It was also not clear if she had yet been arrested.
Gildard, who is free on bail, was initially arrested and charged with theft by unauthorized taking on Oct. 4 in Rumford by Mexico Patrolman Michael Richard.
On Oct. 12, Blanchard, Gildard and Rossi were each indicted by an Oxford County grand jury on the same Class B felony charge. Arrest warrants were issued for Rossi and Blanchard, whose whereabouts at the time were unknown.
According to records in their court files, cases against all three are to be joined.
They are accused of targeting the Mexico Wal-Mart store, which closes at 10 p.m., on three nights just before closing in late August.
According to Mexico Police Chief Jim Theriault, the three were recorded on store surveillance tapes as filling a shopping cart with DVDs, stuffing the DVDs into a duffel bag, throwing the bag over the Lawn and Garden Department fence outside the store, exiting the store and retrieving the bag.
Theriault could not be reached Tuesday for comment.
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