HAMLET — Two others have been charged with stealing antique items from a home on Boyd Lake Road late last month.
Investigators with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office have charged 37-year-old Thomas Lee Nunley Jr. and 45-year-old Jerry Neal Sweeney with conspiring with Brandon Williamson and Alysha Cox to take items from the home, according to arrest warrants.
Warrants allege the crew stole an antique cash register, record player and sewing machine, along with a side table, jewelry box and coins — together worth more than $5,000.
Nunley allegedly sold some of the items for $400.
The sheriff’s office previously reported that Williamson and Cox were caught at the home, sitting in a truck that was backed underneath the carport.
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According to court documents, Nunley and Sweeney were also involved and deputies were told some of the items had been taken to a residence on Aleo Ninth Street in East Rockingham — the same address as the alleged robbery by Hunter Meece just a few days earlier, with Nunley listed one of the occupants during the break-in.
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Sweeney was recently charged, along with his son, for allegedly stealing copper wire from a cellphone tower near their home.
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Nunley was arrested March 3 and charged with: conspiracy to commit felony larceny; breaking and entering; larceny after breaking and entering; felony larceny; and obtaining property by false pretenses.
He is being held in the Richmond County Jail on a $25,000 secured bond and is scheduled to appear in court March 14.
Jail records show Williamson has been charged with more offenses. He is being held on a combined $93,000 secured bond on the following charges: conspiracy to commit larceny; breaking and entering; two counts of larceny after breaking and entering; breaking and entering a motor vehicle; obtaining property by false pretenses; felony larceny; possession of stolen goods or property; injury to property to obtain nonferrous metals; injury to personal property; possession of methamphetamine; and a felony probation violation.
Williamson also has charges of failure to appear on both a misdemeanor and a felony in Moore County.
Sweeney is still being held on a combined $300,000 secured bond.
Cox, who was being held on a $5,000 secured bond, appears to have been released.
Online court records show Nunley has no other pending charges.
Records with the N.C. Department of Adult Correction show Nunley has three prior convictions:
- 2005 – maintaining any place for a controlled substance (probation)
- 2006 – possession of drug paraphernalia (less than six weeks of incarceration)
- 2018 – possession of a Schedule II controlled substance (probation)
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