Two Men Enter 'No Contest' Pleas in Deal Related to Belmont Theft

By Bay City News Service:

Two men arrested last November in connection with the theft of copper wire from a vacant building in Belmont have pleaded no contest to burglary and theft charges, San Mateo County prosecutors said this week.

Donald Marvin Robb, 55, pleaded no contest to felony grand theft on Monday and Darrell Wayne Anderson, 52, pleaded no contest to felony burglary in connection with the Nov. 13 theft, according to the district attorney’s office.

Both entered the pleas in return for an agreed upon sentence of up to one year in county jail.

The burglary was discovered after police were called to the vacant office building on Davis Drive on a report of suspicious persons in the area. When officers arrived on the scene, they found two men and determined that hundreds of pounds of heavy-gauge copper wire valued at about $5,000 had been taken from the building. Police located the wiring and burglary tools at a nearby homeless encampment, according to prosecutors.

Robb and Anderson were ordered to return to court on July 10 for sentencing.

A third suspect in the burglary, Steven Frank Knittle, 54, was questioned and released by police and remains at large. A $75,000 warrant was issued for his arrest on Jan. 28 and remains active, prosecutors said.

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