Taunton Car Thief Sentenced to Up to a Decade in Prison
Tumble RIVER — A Taunton male arrested past summer months for thieving a motor vehicle although presently on parole for a equivalent crime was sentenced to serve seven to 10 yrs in condition prison.
In accordance to the Bristol County District Attorney’s Business office, Randall Mosher, 39, of Taunton, pleaded responsible to a solitary-rely indictment charging him with larceny of a motor auto.
Taunton Police responded to the CVS on Washington Avenue on the night of June 28, 2020, for a report of a stolen motor car. The feminine victim experienced gone within the keep and remaining the key within the car when she returned to where by she experienced parked it, she observed her 2005 Toyota Rav4 going down Washington Avenue.
The D.A.’s Workplace claims the subsequent working day, the victim’s vehicle was observed in the driveway of Mosher’s grandmother’s residence in Dartmouth. They say Mosher was located sleeping within the home, and whilst he denied stealing the car or truck, the essential was found beneath the mattress on which he was sleeping.
Mosher was already on parole at that time for a 2014 situation involving larceny of a motor car, kidnapping, and carjacking. He was putting on a GPS checking bracelet as component of his parole, which Taunton Law enforcement utilised the knowledge from to show he was at the CVS at the time the auto was stolen, and that he experienced traveled to Drop River and New Bedford ahead of parking the car or truck at the Dartmouth residence.
“The defendant is a job felony who was on parole for carjacking and thieving a car when he yet again stole a further victim’s automobile,” District Legal professional Thomas M. Quinn III said. “Being on parole with a GPS unit was no deterrent. He basically won’t get it and needs to be stored off the avenue to protect the general public.”
