WARREN — A Jamestown man has pleaded guilty to charges involved in two theft incidents in Conewango Township.

Michael Lockerbie, 59, of Jamestown was charged March 18 with third-degree felony retail theft – taking merchandise, and driving while operating privileges suspended or revoked by Conewango Township Police for shoplifting that allegedly took place March 14. He pleaded guilty to both charges in the Court of Common Pleas on Thursday before Judge Maureen Skerda. Lockerbie was also charged on a separate docket by Conewango Township Police on March 20 with third-degree felony retail theft – taking merchandise and defiant trespass for shoplifting that allegedly took place March 20. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of retail theft -taking merchandise while the charge of defiant trespass was not prosecuted.

According to the affidavit of probable cause, Conewango police officers were notified of a reported theft from Lowe’s on Market Street. Store employees compiled a file with statements from store employees, reports, receipts, video footage and photographs detailing $1,943.98 in alleged thefts that had taken place between Feb. 19, 2025, and Feb. 24, 2025. Included in the file were photographs of a blue Kia Sportage licensed in New York. A search of police databases showed the same license plate registered to a 2013 Chevrolet Impala tied to a previous retail theft at Walmart in 2019. The registered owner of both vehicles is the same person living at the same address in Jamestown, N.Y.

Among items Lockerbie allegedly stole from Lowe’s over several days is a pair of scissors that he used to cut security devices off of a Dewalt drill and a brushless planer on Feb. 19, a Dewalt reciprocating saw, a Dewalt impact gun, several items from a Dewalt cut-out display, a Dewalt sander and a Dewalt oscillating tool.

Officers secured an arrest warrant for Lockerbie for the alleged Lowe’s thefts and, on March 20, were notified a vehicle identified as the same vehicle Lockerbie was allegedly driving during the Lowe’s thefts was seen near Warren Commons. Officers began to search the area for the vehicle and told Walmart’s loss prevention specialist that Lockerbie may be in the area. The Walmart employee then called police and said Lockerbie was leaving the Walmart store.