The alleged mastermind of a string of fires at Walmart stores along the Gulf Coast fled Nebraska just before he was to be sentenced on a wire fraud conviction.
along the Gulf Coast fled Nebraska just before he was to be sentenced on a wire fraud conviction, according to court records.
According to the agent’s affidavit, Erica Sikes and her husband, Jeffery Sikes, left Nebraska in late 2017 along with Bottoroff and her husband, Sean Bottoroff. A woman named Mikayla Scheele also was with them, according to the criminal complaint. Scheele pleaded guilty separately to her role in the Walmart conspiracy.
According to the criminal complaint, the co-defendants lived as a “family” and frequently held meetings to discuss “business proposals” about how to solve the world’s problems. The frequency and length of those meetings increased in the runup to the fires in May and June last year. Two Walmarts in Mobile and two in Mississippi sustained more than $11 million in damage in May and June last year.
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