TROOPERS AND INVESTIGATORS SAY A GROUP OF SNOWMOBILERS OUTSIDE THE BUILDING SAW A SLED BEING PULLED AWAY ON A CHAIN WITH A PICK-UP ABOUT 1 IN THE MORNING FEBRUARY 9^TH. THEY FOLLOWED THE PICK-UP AND WERE ABLE TO GET A LICENSE PLATE NUMBER. SOMETIME LATER, THE ST.LAWRENCE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT RECEIVED A COMPLAINT FROM 44-YEAR-OLD JOSEPH FISHER OF LEARY ROAD IN COLTON, THAT SOMEBODY HAD ATTACHED A SNOWMOBILE TO HIS TRUCK WITHOUT HIS KNOWLEDGE.

THE SUBSEQUENT INVESTIGATION RESULTED IN FISHER BEING CHARGED WITH A FELONY COUNT OF THIRD DEGREE GRAND LARCENY. THE SLED RECEIVED OVER 15-HUNDRED-DOLLARS DAMAGE WHILE IN FISHER'S POSSESSION, SO HE WAS CHARGED WITH FELONY SECOND DEGREE CRIMINAL MISCHIEF. A NEIGHBOR, 45-YEAR-OLD JASON TALLMAN OF LEARY ROAD WHO ALLEGEDLY WORKED WITH FISHER TO STEAL THE SLED, WAS CHARGED WITH THE SAME FELONIES.

FISHER WAS ARRESTED WEDNESDAY; TALLMAN WAS ARRESTED ON THURSDAY. THEY WERE ARRAIGNED BEFORE PIERREPONT JUSTICE ROBERT CAMP AND RELEASED ON THEIR OWN RECOGNIZANCE UNTIL FUTURE COURT DATES.