Garrick Robert Sneed, 44, of Dexter was charged on Monday in Mower County District Court with felony receiving stolen property and felony bringing stolen goods into the state.

According to the court complaint, a Mower County deputy was dispatched to Dexter on Oct. 21 regarding a stolen camper located in front of a residence in the 250 block of Pleasant Street. The camper, an EverGreen travel trailer with a Wisconsin license plate, had been reported stolen from a campground in La Crosse County, Wisconsin.  The camper was valued at $15,000.

A man at the residence said Sneed had dropped off the camper on Oct. 13, saying he wanted to trade it for a pick-up truck the man was selling, according to the complaint. When the man told him he did not want the camper, Sneed said he had nowhere to park the camper and left it at the residence. The man said Sneed had not come back to remove it from his property.

The deputy was informed that La Crosse law enforcement had video surveillance of the camper being stolen by someone driving a two-tone Ford F150 Extended Cab Pickup, the complaint states. The deputy then asked the man and another eyewitness if Sneed was driving a Ford F150 and both confirmed it was a two-tone F150 with a brush guard. The man further said that Sneed admitted to breaking the lock of the camper with a vice grip tool and flat head screwdriver, saying Sneed told him the owner had died and relatives could not locate the spare set of keys. The deputy went into the camper and found the tools on the floor.

The deputy then spoke to a woman, who said she saw Sneed driving a two-tone pick-up truck that he claimed had been purchased for him by his father. Dispatch advised the deputy they had located a Facebook post from the La Crosse County Sheriff’s Office showing a photograph of the truck and camper. The man and the eyewitness both identified the truck in the photograph as the truck they saw Sneed driving.

A review of Sneed’s criminal record shows prior convictions for theft, receiving stolen property, assault and possession of a controlled substance.

Sneed will appear in court again on Dec. 10.