Former mate faces charges
ADAMS TWP — Township police have charged a Mars man after he allegedly stole a woman’s jewelry and items of clothing and harassed her for months, repeatedly ringing her doorbell and using her address as his own mailing address.
Police first received reports from the victim on Aug. 21 in which she said her ex-boyfriend, Robert Duan Wingard III, 43, of Mars had been stealing her clothes and jewelry throughout their five-year relationship. She reportedly told officers that she had noticed the items missing and that she “obtained information” that Wingard had sold them to several gold shops.
The items included a tennis bracelet, a box chain necklace, a curb chain necklace, a gold etched bangle bracelet and a diamond heart pendant worth $1,787, according to case documents. Transaction records revealed Wingard to be the seller of several of those items.
He also reportedly sold 129 items belonging to the victim and her daughter, with a total cost to replace at $480, according to case documents. The victim also told police that she had caught Wingard listing her furniture on Craigslist to sell without her permission.
The victim reported to police that Wingard had started using her address as his mailing address, even though he did not live there, documents state.
She told police that she sent the mail back.
On Aug. 30, two leasing office employees of the Pointe of Adams Ridge reported that Wingard called and demanded access to the victim’s apartment, documents state, saying that he was unable to get in and that the locks had been changed.
They reportedly refused as they had no record of him living there, and he said he planned to call the police and a lawyer.
The next day, the victim reported someone rang her doorbell only to speed away in a van when she answered the door.
She installed a camera outside her door, and the next day she reportedly saw Wingard walk to the door, the doorbell rang and then he left. At that point police called him and left a voice mail telling Wingard to stay away from the address and to stop contacting the victim.
On Sept. 19, the victim reportedly told police she had video of Wingard retrieving an envelope that had been dropped off at her house.
Post office employees confirmed that Wingard had changed his address to the woman’s twice in 2017, documents state.
The woman continued reporting to police times when she received mail intended for Wingard along with texts and pictures from him about her calling the police and the end of their relationship.
Wingard is charged with theft, receiving stolen property, criminal trespassing and multiple counts of harassment.
A preliminary hearing has not yet been scheduled.
