CLEARFIELD – A DuBois man accused of breaking into an area pharmacy twice pleaded guilty during colloquy court in Clearfield County.
Adam Paul Mott, 33, 312 W. Long Ave., DuBois, an inmate of the jail, pleaded guilty to burglary, criminal mischief, and possessing instruments of crime in one case and criminal mischief in the second case. He was sentenced to six months to one year in jail and two years consecutive probation. He was fined $550 plus costs and must pay restitution of $1,585.13.
The charges stem from incidents beginning on June 29 in DuBois at the Medicine Shoppe. According to the affidavit of probable cause, police responded to a report of glass breaking in the area of the business at 10:59 p.m. When officers arrived, they found the front window had been smashed out. Because the hole was too small for someone to enter, the officers searched outside the building for the burglar. After an employee arrived, he unlocked the door and police checked the building. A surveillance video showed someone outside the door right before police were called to the scene, but none of the cameras showed the area where the window was broken.
Police were called back to the store because an alarm was going off at the business at 1:33 a.m. When an officer arrived, he saw the glass broken in the front door on the left side of the building. Movement was heard inside the building.
The officers secured all the exits, as one officer saw a man inside the business. He was ordered to come to the door with his hands up. Instead, the man backed away from the officer’s view. He was again ordered to the door. The actor came back into view of the police, walked toward the door and dropped a $50 bill. The officer ordered him to turn around and place his hands behind his back. The man, later identified as Mott, was taken into custody. He had $1,193 in cash and a socket wrench.
In an interview with police, Mott admitted he broke the window earlier with a shovel. Then he returned to watch an employee putting plywood on it. After the employee left, Mott said he went back to the business and used the socket wrench to break the windows out of the front door. He used a snow shovel to pry the window frame from the door so he could enter. He found a safe and removed money from it as police arrived.
Later that day, police received a call from a man who found a blue plastic container filled with prescription bottles in the grass behind the Senior Center near the Medicine Shoppe. The basket contained 15 pill bottles with a total of 824 pills valued at $1,738.81.
When Mott was asked about the basket, he stated that after he smashed the window, he reached in and grabbed a blue basket with pills in it. He placed that basket somewhere in the grass near the Medicine Shoppe.