Cantonment Man Charge With Stealing Trailer, Selling It On Facebook

March 30, 2023

A Cantonment man is accused of stealing a trailer valued at $5,400 then selling it for $1,000.

Nicholas Dale Colbert, 34, was charged with two counts of grand theft and one count of dealing in stolen property.

The 14-foot trailer was stolen from the 9500 block of Pensacola Boulevard and recovered the following day from a residence on Bellview Pines Place after an Apple Airtag pinged at that location.

A man at the residence told deputies that he purchased the trailer for $1,000 from a man on Facebook Marketplace. The seller, later identified as Colbert, provided a written “bill of sale”, according to an arrest report.

Colbert was charged with a count of grand theft for the trailer and a second count of grand theft for the $1,000 lost by the buyer, according to the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office. He remained in the Escambia County Jail with bond set at $9,000.

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One Response to “Cantonment Man Charge With Stealing Trailer, Selling It On Facebook”

  1. Mack M on March 30th, 2023 12:34 pm

    Apple Ping “Tag you’re it”.

    A friend left his phone at a restaurant in downtown Pensacola on the table. Realized 5 minutes later that he left it. Went back to get it and the phone was gone. He tracked the phone from his wife’s phone and it was located traveling to Milton. About an hour later, the phone was tracked to a residence in Milton. Rang the doorbell, a woman answered and he said I’m here to get my phone that you took from a restaurant. She handed him his phone. Simple as that.

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