A Belleview man is in the Marion County Jail after admitting to stealing his mother’s jewelry and pawning it for money to buy drugs.
Justin Paul Adcock, 38, of 4671 SE 98th Lane, is being held on $50,000 bond after being charged with three counts of dealing in stolen property, three counts of grand theft from a dwelling, and three counts of giving false information to a pawnbroker.
The victim told a Marion County sheriff’s deputy that her yellow gold 17-stone ring was stolen during December from her home on NE 31st Terrace in Ocala. She said the ring was worth about $100 and said her son, Adcock, was the one who stole it, according to the sheriff’s office report.
The victim said she was taking Adcock to The Centers mental health hospital for drug addiction help on Jan. 17 when he told her he had given the ring to a pawn shop to have it engraved. The victim said she never gave Adcock permission to take the ring. She said he wasn’t living with her during the early and middle of December, but he did have a key and permission to enter the home as he pleased, the report said.
The deputy conducted a pawn search and found three pawn slips under Adcock’s name at Walt’s Pawn, located at 351 E. Silver Springs Blvd. One of the slips was dated Dec. 11, 2020, while the other two were Dec. 17. Numerous jewelry items were listed on the slips, including some that the victim didn’t even know were missing, according to the report.
The victim said some of the items belonged to her deceased mother and had been passed down to her. She said she didn’t know they were missing because she hadn’t been in her mother’s jewelry box to see if they were stolen, the report said.
The deputy responded to The Centers, located at 5664 SW 60th Ave., and arrested Adcock on Tuesday afternoon as he was being released from treatment. After being read his Miranda warning, he said he stole the items because he had no steady income and he pawned the items to buy drugs. Adcock couldn’t recall many details of the thefts but said all the jewelry he pawned in December belonged to his mother. The total amount Adcock received from pawning the items, according to the report.
Adcock will appear in Marion County Court on Feb. 23.