Powell pleads not guilty to theft of $18K in art
Four months after being arrested for stealing $18,000 worth of art from a Yale greenhouse, Jodonell Powell pleaded not guilty to 27 criminal charges at a plea hearing Wednesday morning.
Wearing jeans, sneakers and a pair of handcuffs, Powell, 54, submitted his plea just a day after being denied the chance to enter a drug-treatment program in place of facing trial. In addition to the art-theft charges, Powell’s other alleged offenses include smaller burglaries on campus and around New Haven, criminal trespass, illegal operation of a motor vehicle, resisting arrest and use of drug...
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