{"id":54139,"date":"2022-07-25T15:45:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=54139"},"modified":"2022-07-25T15:45:40","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:45:40","slug":"lehigh-acres-man-no-show-at-trial-call-in-a-construction-theft-case-judge-issues-arrest-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/07\/lehigh-acres-man-no-show-at-trial-call-in-a-construction-theft-case-judge-issues-arrest-warrant\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Acres man no-show at trial call in a construction theft case, Judge issues arrest warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An arrest warrant has been issued for one of two Lehigh Acres men charged with a theft from a construction site after he failed to show for a court hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Enrique Nava-Molina, 54, facing second-degree felony charges of dealing in stolen property and one third-degree felony count of trespassing on a construction site, was scheduled to appear before Lee Circuit Judge Margaret O. Steinbeck for a trial call Thursday but was a no-show and the judge issued a bench warrant for his arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An accomplice in his case, Elvis Fonseca Lara, 35, was charged with one count of dealing in stolen property, a second-degree felony. He appeared before Steinbeck March 28 and was sentenced to 17 months in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fonseca Lara\u2019s sentence is to run concurrent with two 36-month prison sentences, also running concurrently, on burglary of a structure and grand theft charges stemming from a March 2021 case.  He entered a no contest plea in that case and was adjudicated guilty on both counts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The construction site theft occurred in September 2021 in Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detectives with the Sheriff’s Office Construction Special Investigations Unit and East District Criminal Investigations Division were watching the site and saw a truck enter after working hours on Sept. 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The truck left about 15 minutes later with a full bed of plywood sheets and was located by deputies at a home off Joel Avenue in Lehigh Acres where a Sheriff’s Office report said Fonseca Lara and Nava-Molina were trying to sell the plywood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Detectives examined the construction site and saw one of the plywood pallets had its plastic wrapping removed. They determined the amount of missing plywood matched the amount in the suspect’s truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Investigators also confirmed distinguishing marks on the plywood matched the sheets in the suspects’ possession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nava-Molina was also sentenced in Lee County Court in 2002 on charges including burglary, grand theft, kidnapping, robbery with a gun or deadly weapon, aggravated battery and burglary assault from a 1999 case. He served 11 years of a 15-year state prison term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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