HEBER CITY – Three people alleged to have stolen wage envelopes from seven Utah state parks, possibly since 2019, were arrested over the weekend.
Aaron Scott Edwards, 40, Colin Scot Mackintosh, 47 and Camille Eileen Edwards, 37, all from Ogden, have been arrested on charges of illegal activity investigations, seven theft counts and possession of burglary tools. Each person was also arrested on suspicion of various drug possession and paraphernalia.
According to police affidavits, as of December 2019, there have been a number of incidents in seven state parks – Jordanelle, Wasatch, Deer Creek, East Canyon, Rockport, Echo, and Willard – where wage envelopes were stolen from self-pay stations. “”
The amount of money withdrawn from all seven parks in nearly a year and a half “conservatively puts the value of the loss well above $ 1,500 per state park,” the affidavit said. Rockport alone raised more than $ 4,700 from April 1-24.
In any case, a “thick sticky residue” remained, according to the affidavit.
Beginning in June, park officials set up rear-view cameras in several locations and “collected hundreds of photos and videos of people using long metal objects to get through envelope slots and using the sticky substance to retrieve the envelope containing the money they received from customers Envelopes was paid for. ” Parks, “so the affidavits.
On Saturday, occupants of a 2003 Ford Escape, a vehicle that was recorded in previous pictures and videos, took oaths from Echo at 4:30 am, Rockport at 4:53 am, and Jordanelle at 5:31 am . The same vehicle was spotted in the Jordanelle area on Saturday at around 2 p.m. by Utah State Park officials on their way to a gas station to collect further video evidence of the case, according to affidavits.
The car was stopped by officers and three people were arrested after questioning and searching their vehicle.
“The driver, Aaron Edwards, who wore the same sweatshirt as in all of the previous photos of the theft that morning and the previous theft, openly admitted that he ‘knew that day was coming’ and provided us with the burglar tools that were used in the thefts. ” the affidavit states.
Camille Edwards also admitted stealing from various state parks, U.S. Forest Service areas, and Bureau of Land Management properties over the past year, the affidavits read. According to the affidavit, she was in possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia that had been arrested.
Mackintosh initially denied being involved, but “were shown several pictures of him committing the crimes over the past year, and was made aware of how we had sat at his Ogden residence several times, and tracked his movements in the In 2020, until he destroyed his car. Then he declared that he had been caught, “the investigators wrote in their affidavit.
“The search of the suspect vehicle also found hundreds of dollars in cash, some with sticky residue on bills, torn and sticky state park fee envelopes, various break-in tools, extra methamphetamines, paraphernalia and heroin,” the affidavit said .
Police also confiscated a “new air rifle, crossbow and two speaker amplifiers found in the back seat of the suspicious vehicle (that), with funds stolen from state parks earlier in the day,” according to affidavit.
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