State v. Olsen

DONIELSON, Presiding Judge.

Thomas Edward Olsen was charged and convicted, along with codefendant Darrell Dean Sholley, of burglary in the first degree and possession of firearms as a felon. Codefendant Sholley had been suspected of perpetrating several burglaries in rural areas of central Iowa during the summer and early fall of 1990. Marshalltown police detectives and the Marshall County Sheriff’s Department engaged in a joint surveillance operation on October 2, 1990, in the hopes of catching Sholley in the act of perpetrating another burglary.

During the early morning of October 2, Sholley…