East Troy man charged with having stolen refrigerators
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 26 for an East Troy man allegedly found with stolen refrigerators valued at nearly $30,000.
Richard T. Neudorff, 51, was charged April 27 in Walworth County Circuit Court with three counts of receiving stolen property.
According to the criminal complaint, a deputy executing a search warrant noticed three large cardboard boxes under a tarp in a garage at Main Street Motors in East Troy. Inside the boxes were refrigerators, which were identified as missing from a shipment that was going from Sub-Zero in Fitchburg to Fretz Warehouse in Longhorn, Pa., on July 28.
Neudorff, owner of Main Street Motors, told the deputy, “I should’ve known they were stolen.” He said he traded a motorcycle and a car for six refrigerators from Kyle Krueger and had already sold three of the refrigerators, according to the complaint. The three remaining refrigerators were valued at $8,310, $9,860 and $11,610.
Neudorff said he believed the refrigerators were repossessed but had no answer for why repossession refrigerators would be unopened and unused with shipping labels still on the boxes, according to the complaint.
