Police say missing snowmachines appeared in Charleston driveway

by Joseph Gresser

NEWPORT — A man who told police two missing snowmachines had been left in his drive without his knowledge, pled innocent to two felony charges of possession of stolen property.  Dane Kross-Baker, 38, of Charleston was released on conditions by Judge Lisa Warren.

According to the affidavit filed by State Police Trooper Aaron Leonard, the owner of Walt’s Sales and Service in Derby called police on March 30 and said a snowmachine was left at his shop for service.  The machine was placed in an enclosed trailer.

Trooper Leonard said the shop’s security cameras showed a small, dark car pull into the shop’s parking lot a little after midnight on March 19 and drive over to where the trailer was left.  Shortly after 1 a.m. an SUV stopped on Route 5 near the trailer, and someone got out, and drove away on the snowmachine, he said.

The camera showed the person who took the machine headed east on the VAST trail, the affidavit says….

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