ROCKINGHAM — A man currently on probation has been charged with two new felonies.
Police accuse Marvin Edward Steele, 29, of South Brookwood Avenue, of breaking into a Fayetteville Road home on June 10, according to an arrest warrant.
The warrant also states that Steele was in possession of a stolen antique Buck stove — valued at $600 — and sold stolen metal to Fortress Metal for an unspecified amount of cash.
Steele was arrested by Rockingham police on Saturday and charged with one felony count each of breaking and or entering and obtaining property by false pretenses. He also faces a misdemeanor count of possession of stolen goods or property.
He was booked into the Richmond County Jail under a $10,000 secured bond and has a court date scheduled for Aug. 27.
Online court records show Steele has several other pending charges including a traffic violation of driving while impaired and a misdemeanor probation violation.
Steele received a split sentence of 36 months of supervision — including serving nearly six months behind bars — following a 2014 conviction of a level 1 DWI with aggravating factors, according to the N.C. Department of Public Safety Division of Adult Correction. While incarcerated, he also served a month and a half on a resisting charge.
He previously served time stemming from a conviction in 2010 on charges of driving while impaired and resisting an officer.
Steele’s first convictions came in 2004 when he was convicted on two counts of simple assault or affray and misdemeanor larceny. Although he was initially given probation, he spent two months behind bars on those charges after his probation was revoked because of a drunk and disorderly conviction in 2006.
Records show he was also convicted on a misdemeanor count of shoplifting in 2007 and larceny in 2009.
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