Staff report

WALDO, Fla. – Christopher Eugene Sheddan, 42, and Lindsay May Sheddan, 39, both of Gainesville, were arrested yesterday for stealing lawn maintenance equipment from Lindsay Sheddan’s employer.

On June 23, an Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputy responded to the Pilot station in Waldo (17276 NE U.S. Hwy 301), where a store manager showed him a video in which Lindsay gave Christopher a key to the business’s maintenance storage shed, located behind the gas station.

The store manager said Lindsay was employed at the gas station at the time of the incident, but only management and maintenance personnel should have had access to the key; the manager said store employees had no reason to have a key.

The deputy reported that the video shows Christopher walking up to the front counter, where Lindsay is standing. Lindsay appears to slide a key, attached to a silver ring, to Christopher, and then an outside camera shows Christopher loading a weed eater, backpack blower, and water pump from the maintenance shed into the back of his vehicle. The deputy reported that the store manager said Christopher would only have been able to enter the shed by using the key provided by Lindsay.

The deputy reported that Christopher sold the stolen items to a third party, and Lindsay assisted Christopher in the commission of the crime.

Post Miranda, Christopher reportedly confessed to stealing the backpack blower and weed eater and selling them to a private party.

Post Miranda, Lindsay reportedly denied any involvement in the theft and said she did not give Christopher a key but gave him her phone. The deputy reported that the video shows Lindsay giving Christopher a key at the front counter of the gas station.

Christopher has been charged with burglary of an unoccupied dwelling, dealing in stolen property, grand theft, and theft. He has seven felony convictions (non-violent) and eight misdemeanor convictions (non-violent). Judge Meshon Rawls set bail at $45,000.

Lindsay has been charged with burglary of an unoccupied dwelling, dealing in stolen property, grand theft, and theft. She has no criminal history; Judge Rawls set bail at $45,000.

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