A South Seminary Street man was lodged in the county jail on theft charges Friday after U.S. postal inspectors alerted Princeton police to some questionable transactions on the online auction site eBay.

Audie Wayne Mabrey, 52, was arrested at 6:45 p.m. Friday on warrants charging him with two counts of unlawful access to a computer, first degree, and two counts of theft by deception over $300 after officers executed a search warrant at his residence, Maj. R.L. Howton said Monday.

On Wednesday, Dec. 6, city officers were contacted by U.S. Postal Service inspectors, who said that they had conducted an investigation into complaints they had received from individuals in two different states stating that Mabrey had listed items on eBay, sold them and never delivered them.

One complaint alleged that on July 22, Mabrey had listed 60 VendStar 3000 candy vending machines on eBay and sold them for $4,800.

Mabrey was paid for the items and allegedly never delivered them.

The other complainant stated that on Aug. 29, Mabrey listed a SnoCone lemonade trailer with supplies (commonly known as shaved ice, or Paradise Sno) and sold it for $4,850.

Police said Mabrey collected the money, but again failed to deliver the item.

Howton said officers executed a search warrant at Mabrey’s residence and seized numerous items including receipts, bank statements and computers.

Mabrey was taken into custody on the warrants and lodged in the county jail. Other charges are possible; investigation continues.

• Officers arrested Justin L. Mitchell, 18, of Beshear Lane, at 3:52 a.m. Tuesday on charges of possession of a legend drug and having a prescription controlled substance not in its proper container.

Howton said officers responded to a complaint of a suspicious person in the area of Kay’s Kitchen and located Mitchell, who had five Levsin tablets in his pocket. He was lodged in the county jail.

• Joshua E. Coleman, 18, of Cecile Drive, was arrested at 2:47 a.m. Sunday on a charge of DUI after officers observed the 1993 Jeep he was driving weaving in the road.

Officers determined that Coleman was impaired and took him into custody. He was lodged in the county jail.

• Police charged a 16-year-old juvenile with possession of marijuana after responding to a disturbance complaint in the Wal-Mart lot.

Howton said officers were informed that the occupants of two vehicles were involved in a disturbance on the lot. While they were investigating the complaint, they discovered that the juvenile had thrown a bag of suspected marijuana under one of the vehicles. The juvenile was charged and released to relatives.

• Anthony R. Rylee, 30, of Watkins Street, Hardin, was arrested at 12:05 a.m. Saturday on a Lyon County indictment warrant charging him with theft by unlawful taking, two counts of theft of a legend drug, first degree, theft or receipt of two or more stolen credit cards, and being a persistent felony offender. He was lodged in the county jail.

• Police continue to investigate an assault complaint reported from the Caldwell County Hospital by an Eddyville resident Saturday night.

Officers went to the hospital at 9:15 p.m. and spoke to Angela Kilgore, of 695 Oriole Drive, Eddyville, who said she had been assaulted at a residence in Garden Acres in Princeton.

Kilgore told officers that she had gone to her mother’s residence to pick up her children and was assaulted by her mother’s boyfriend.

• Officers are investigating a theft reported at the Dollar General Store Friday afternoon.

Police responded to the store, at 206 North Harrison St., at 3:17 p.m. Employees told officers that they found an empty home theater system box; the system had apparently been removed and carried out of the store. The value of the system was $35.

• Dallas Ward, of 53 Jill Drive, reported a theft to police at 9:27 p.m. Thursday.

She said that sometime between 8 p.m. and the time of the report, someone stole some prescription medication, including 73 Lortab (hydrocodone) tablets and 29 Tramadol tablets, and several compact discs from her vehicle, which was unlocked at her residence.

Ward valued the stolen items at $78.87.

• Amelia D. Rosales, of 510 East Market St., reported a burglary at 10:05 p.m. Monday.

Rosales told officers she arrived at her residence between 8 and 8:30 p.m., and as she entered the front door, she heard someone run out the back door.

She then discovered that someone had gained entry to the residence through a bedroom window. She reported the theft of some prescription medication, including Lortab, morphine, Xanax, Clonopin and Cenestin.

• Chris Stith, of 500 Madisonville St., reported a theft at 8:50 a.m. Saturday.

Stith told officers that two ceramic statues had been taken from his yard during the night.

The statues were valued at $115.

• Jonathan E. Mankle reported that his vehicle had been damaged while it was parked on the lot of the Princeton Bowling Center.

No damage estimate was provided.