Man who took items from motel room pleads guilty

A man staying in a Mountain Home motel in 2022 as part of a work crew pled guilty to charges of obtaining a keycard to another person’s room and removing a number of items.

Twenty-seven-year-old Carlos Lashun Myers listed an address in Hattiesburg, Mississippi at the time the alleged theft took place March 10, 2022.

During a session of Baxter County Circuit Court June 2, he was sentenced to five years-probation on a reduced charge of breaking or entering.
Myers had initially been charged with residential burglary.

He was recently arrested in Jackson County Kansas on charges of domestic assault and destruction of property and extradited to Baxter County on an arrest warrant issued at the time of the 2022 theft.

According to the probable cause affidavit in the Baxter County case, Myers was reported to have clocked out from the site where the crew was working and returned to the motel.

Video surveillance cameras show Myers and a fellow employee loading a car with luggage taken from room 220 where Myers and the second person were registered.

After loading the car, Myers was reported to have gone to the front desk and reported his keycard was not working and needed to be reprogrammed. He told the front desk employee he was in room 206.

Room 206 was occupied by the victim. Myers entered the room and a short time later was seen leaving with items hidden under a white sheet.

The victim reported that a recently purchased rifle and a laptop computer had been taken from his room. The estimated cost of the items was about $1200, according to the probable cause affidavit.

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