Suspect in Glade stables, golf course burglary gets 10 years

CROSSVILLE, TN March 17, 2011 — The Cumberland County man who investigators said was responsible for twice breaking into a riding stables and golf course maintenance shop and for stealing several utility trailers in the county will be serving a ten-year sentence in prison.

James Mitchell Roysdon, 34, who gave authorities a Chestnut Hill Rd. address when arrested, was scheduled to go on trial Monday for a series of burglaries and thefts including break-ins at the Wildwood Stables and Heatherhurst Golf Course maintenance shop last year. At the last second, he changed his mind and instead pleaded guilty to five counts of a multi-count indictment. He is also to make $6,658 restitution in the cases.

Roysdon was originally charged with the following offenses: 

• From Jan. 2 to March 4, 2010, with stealing a utility trailer valued at $1,000 from Eric Anderson.
• From Jan. 2 to March 17, 2010, with stealing a utility trailer valued at $1,000 from Joseph Grunduski.
• On Jan. 20, 2010, breaking into Wildwood Stables and stealing nine horse saddles valued at over $10,000.
• On Feb., 13, 2010, stealing a utility trailer valued at $1,000 from Edward Forsyth.
• On March 4, 2010, breaking into the golf course maintenance shop and stealing a 2008 Chevrolet pickup and four industrial leaf blowers with loss placed at over $10,000.
• On March 13, 2010, breaking into Wildwood Stables again and stealing a lawn mower and two chains saws with loss placed at $1,000.
• On March 13, 2010, stealing a horse trailer valued at $1,000 from Judith Elam in Lake Tansi.

Roysdon was facing four counts of theft more than $1,000, two counts of burglary, two counts of theft more than $10,000 and one count of theft more than $500.

He pleaded guilty to two counts of theft more than $10,000 and received two ten-year sentences. Roysdon also pleaded guilty to three counts of theft more than $1,000 and received three five-year sentences.

All sentences are to be served in the state prison system currently, for a total of ten years, to be served at 35 percent.

Exactly one year ago Monday sheriff's investigators were dispatched to Wildwood Stables to investigate the burglary there and while en route to the scene, received a report from a trooper in Wilson County near Nashville that the stolen pickup had been recovered abandoned on the side of I-40.

Sheriff Butch Burgess then received an anonymous tip that there were some stolen trailers at a flea market in Springfield. While traveling to Springfield, Investigators Jerry Jackson and Chad Norris passed a flea market near Greenbrier that had a horse trailer for sale.

As it turned out, that trailer had been stolen from the Wildwood Riding Stables. With assistance from Greenbrier Police and the Robertson County Sheriff's Department, the utility trailer stolen from Grunduski in Fairfield Glade.

The following week Investigators Jacson, Scott Griffin and David Gibson returned to the flea market and recovered two trailers that had been stolen from Anderson and Forsyth along with the saddles stolen from the stables and the leaf blowers stolen from the golf course.

Additional trailers were recovered including one reported stolen in Humphreys County.

The payment of restitution in the case represents items not recovered by investigators.

Resource: Michael R. Moser,  Editor The Crossville Chronicle Thu Mar 17, 2011, http://crossville-chronicle.com/local/x1498153010/Suspect-in-Glade-stables-golf-course-burglary-gets-10-years