June 17, 2024 |
Photo – Mugshot of DiGiorgio – Courtesy CCSO Detention Center
A Colorado man is sitting in the Carbon County jail after being arrested in Hanna on charges of stealing a semi-truck. The stolen truck then became stranded in a remote part of Carbon County.
Thirty-five-year-old Brice Andrew DiGiorgio, of Denver, is facing four felony counts in Carbon County District Court. DiGiorgio is facing three counts of theft and one for interference with a peace officer stemming from a crime spree in late May in which the suspect reportedly stole a semi-truck, a pick-up truck, and a t-shirt all in the same day. He was busy.
According to a written affidavit from Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper Caleb Hobbs, around 3:00pm on May 28th, Trooper Even Deneke received a BOLO, or Be on the Lookout, for a stolen, maroon-colored Mack truck. The BOLO reported the truck parked on Highway 30, east of Medicine Bow. The semi-truck was reported stolen out Commerce City, Colorado, earlier that morning.
Upon arriving at the scene, Trooper Deneke saw the Mack truck in a ditch on the side of the road. The trooper spotted boot prints in the dirt leading from the semi toward the town of Medicine Bow.
After a tow truck arrived to remove the Mack truck, Trooper Deneke left to pursue the suspect.
In his written statement, Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper Hobbs stated that around the same time Trooper Deneke was responding to the crashed semi-truck, the Carbon County Sheriff’s Office was investigating a Chevy pickup truck stolen out of Medicine Bow.
The white 2023 Chevrolet pickup was found crashed on a two-track road northeast of Hanna. Trooper Deneke and sheriff’s deputies suspected that the two incidents were related. However, after searching the area, the officers were not able to locate the suspect.
Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper Hobbs writes in his affidavit that at noon on the following day, May 29th, employees at The New Dingy Dan’s, now known as Mike’s Deuces, in Hanna reported a suspicious man to law enforcement. The man entered the bar and claimed to have been stranded in the sagebrush for multiple days and asked for an ambulance. Trooper Deneke suspected the man was the suspect who had stolen the semi-truck from Colorado and the pickup from Medicine Bow.
When Trooper Deneke arrived in Hanna, he saw a man wearing a JB’s Stop-N-Shop t-shirt and boots with a similar tread pattern to the prints the trooper had seen leaving the Mack truck the day before. The man claimed to be 25-year-old Matthew Seymore.
As officers attempted to figure out the man’s real identity, Trooper Deneke called the stolen Mack truck’s owner, Eric Shonka. Shonka provided Wyoming Highway Patrol with dash cam video of his truck being stolen. The man in the video matched the suspect sitting in the Hanna bar.
Meanwhile, sheriff’s deputies and highway patrol troopers retrieved security camera footage from JB’s Stop-N-Shop in Medicine Bow. According to Trooper Hobbs, the video showed the suspect leaving the store bathroom wearing the stolen t-shirt. The suspect’s original shirt, matching what was worn in the dash cam video, was found in JB’s bathroom.
The suspect, still going by the name Matthew Seymore, was taken to Memorial Hospital of Carbon County for medical evaluation. While being transported to the hospital, the suspect admitted that his name was actually Brice Andrew DiGiorgio and that he was born in 1988.
After being medically cleared, DiGiorgio was released from MHCC. Armed with the video evidence, Trooper Deneke placed the suspect under arrest and transported him to the Carbon County Jail.
According to the written affidavit of Wyoming Highway Patrol Trooper Hobbs, while being questioned by Trooper Deneke, DiGiorgio admitted to the crimes, stating that he stole the Mack truck because people were after him and he feared for his life.
DiGiorgio allegedly told Trooper Deneke that after crashing the semi-truck on Highway 30, he walked into Medicine Bow where he stole the t-shirt from JB’s Stop-N-Shop. After leaving the store, DiGiorgio said he stole the Chevy truck from a house in town and crashed it on a trail northeast of Hanna.
Court documents state that DiGiorgio said after crashing the truck, he hid overnight in the sagebrush. The following morning, hungry and thirsty, the suspect said he walked to the bar in Hanna asked for assistance.
On May 31st, Carbon County Prosecutor Sarah Chavez Harkins charged DiGiorgio with three counts of theft: one for the Mack-truck, one for the Chevy pickup, and one for the JB’s Stop-N-Shop t-shirt. On top of the three theft charges, Prosecutor Chavez Harkins also charged DiGiorgio with interference with a peace officer for providing a false name.
DiGiorgio is being held in the Carbon County Jail on $20,000 cash only bond. The suspect has not been scheduled a court date yet.
