DeVries found guilty in theft

Following a two-day trial last week, Raymond W. DeVries Sr. was found guilty of five misdemeanor counts of theft and one misdemeanor count of criminal trespassing.

The charges are from an Aug. 30, 2018 incident in which DeVries brought onto the property of Linsey Brooks a truck and forklift, marked to his company, with the purpose of taking five large landscaping rocks.

During removal of the rocks, one of them cracked and a portion of it was left on Brooks’ property. Brooks’ pasture was also damaged by excessive operation of heavy equipment in moving the rocks.

A sentencing date for DeVries has not been set, but he faces penalties of six months in jail and a $750 fine, on each count. If ordered served consecutively, he could face up to three years in jail and $4,500 in fines.