By Matt Snyder
GROVE CITY — The former assistant manager of a Burger King burglarized of $2,467 last Oct. 30 was sentenced Friday to 3 years’ probation for her role in the theft.
Emily E. Hindman, 30, of 229 Grace St., Grove City, pleaded no contest in July to conspiracy to commit burglary. The money was stolen after hours by thieves who used Ms. Hindman’s alarm code and keys, police said.
Two Grove City men are charged in the theft: Zachery Allen Mellring, 20, of 517è Barmore Ave., and Brian Thomas Fiedler Jr, formerly 422 S. Center St.
Ms. Hindman agreed to testify against them in exchange for her guilty plea; charges of trespassing, theft and receiving stolen property were dropped against her.
Besides probation, Ms. Hindman was also ordered by Mercer County Common Pleas Judge Court Judge John C. Reed to pay $4,277 restitution to Burger King.
She at first told police that people could have guessed the alarm code because it was linked to information about her daughter, and that someone could have taken the keys and safe combination from her purse. She also said a lot of people come and go from her apartment.
Mellring pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy to burglary for acting as the lookout. He agreed to testify in exchange for his plea; trespassing, theft and receiving stolen property charges were dropped against him.
A fourth individual, Harold Nelson Steele Jr., 38, also of 422 S. Center St., was sentenced Thursday to 10 months to 2 years in county jail on a charge of intimidating a witness for threatening to kill Ms. Hindman if she told police he was involved.
Steele has not been charged in the burglary.
