State v. Ippolito

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DREIER, P.J.A.D.

Defendant appeals from convictions of fourth-degree theft of property of $200 or more, N.J.S.A 2C:20-3a, and of the disorderly persons offense of resisting arrest, N.J.S.A 2C:29-2a, a lesser-included offense of the fourth-degree crime originally charged. Defendant was sentenced to a term of eighteen months with a nine-month parole disqualifier for the theft and to a 180-day concurrent sentence in the county jail for resisting arrest.

Defendant and his sister’s fiancee, Jack Ensel, were seen loading plywood into Ensel’s van at a…