WESTFIELD – A city man has 11 sentences to be served in two batches after he pleaded guilty to charges involving larceny brought as five cases by city police.
In a document filed in Westfield District Court to support a criminal complaint, a Westfield detective described Daniel Lisitsin, 26, of 28 Union Street, as “a known drug addict who steals to support his habit.”
Det. Anthony Tsatsos investigated some of the offenses for which Lisitsin was charged and reports that he initiated one of the cases against Lisitsin when he found that the man had sold jewelry at a local jewelry store.
In that case, Tsatsos found that most of the jewelry Lisitsin sold belonged to his sister who had not known the items were missing until Tsatsos asked her to identify them.
A diamond ring Lisitsin had sold did not belong to his sister but Tsatsos found that it had been stolen from his mother.
Although Tsatsos found evidence that Lisitsin had sold the items, he could not prove that he had stolen them so, in that case, he was charged with receiving stolen property valued more than $250.
The cost of the items Lisitsin sold at the jewelry store was, Tsatsos reports, $2,800 but Lisitsin was paid only $70 for the pieces.
Because Lisitsin stole from the merchant by selling him jewelry that he could not keep because it was stolen, he was charged with larceny but, since he effectively stole only $70 from the merchant, he was charged with larceny of property valued less than $250.
When Lisitsin pleaded guilty, Judge Philip A. Contant sentenced him to concurrent six month terms in the house of correction and assessed him $90.
Contant sentenced him to a third and fourth concurrent six month term when he pleaded guilty to the same charges brought as a separate case and a fifth concurrent term when he pleaded guilty to shoplifting baby formula from a city drug store.
But, before Lisitsin starts serving those terms, Contant ordered that he complete six concurrent 127-day terms, with credit for time served, after he pleaded guilty to additional charges in two other cases brought by city police.
In one of those cases, Lisitsin pleaded guilty to stealing a video game system, video games and a debit card from a vehicle parked at his family’s home.
Tsatsos reports that two charges of larceny of property valued less than $250 and charges of receiving stolen property valued more than $250 and improper use of a credit card stem from that incident.
The debit card was recovered when Lisitsin’s sister confronted him about the theft from a vehicle and he surrendered it to her.
He was sentenced to two more concurrent 127 day terms after he pleaded guilty to charges of receiving stolen property valued more than $250 and larceny of property valued less than $250 stemming from a burglary at a neighbor’s home.
Tsatsos reports that, after the thefts of jewelry from his mother and sister were discovered, he “was kicked out of the house” by his mother.
