A Florida man who had been recently released from prison was arrested again after a burglary.
Deputies from the Polk County Sheriff’s Office arrested 23-year-old Stephan Rice IV, who had completed a four-year prison sentence for grand theft motor vehicle and was released earlier this summer.
According to a PCSO detective, it didn’t take long before Rice burglarized a vehicle in Polk City and stole a wallet. A short time later, Rice made a purchase of about $765 on a credit card that was in the stolen wallet. A warrant for Rice’s arrest was obtained.
Just after midnight, PCSO deputies located Rice at the Circle K store on Commonwealth Avenue in Polk City and arrested him on the warrant without incident.
According to law enforcement, Rice was taken to the jail on the charges for Burglary of Conveyance, Grand Theft, Felony Petit Theft, and Unlawful Use of a Person’s ID.
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office noted that Stephan Rice’s prior criminal history includes: arrests for grand theft, petit theft, motor vehicle theft, grand theft of a firearm, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, conspiracy to commit burglary, armed burglary of a dwelling, battery on law enforcement, assault on law enforcement, resisting an officer without violence, corruption by threat to public official, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of marijuana.
