A Roanoke Rapids man sentenced to five years probation for a series of break-ins including a local church has been charged with the larceny of wallet from a purse at a local business.

Jacob Matthew Davis, 22, was released on $2,000 bond and has a September 14 court date.

Captain Andy Jackson of the Roanoke Rapids Police Department said Davis was visiting someone he knew at a local business when the theft of the wallet occurred on August 20. The purse was in the break room of the business and the wallet contained a checkbook, credit cards and a social security card.

Jackson said police continue to investigate the possible parole violation which gave Davis a 7 p.m. curfew. The crime occurred between 9:34 p.m. and 9:53 p.m. The terms of his probation were set in April when Davis took a plea for a series of 2009 and 2010 break-ins that included Stanley White Presbyterian Church.

The plea arrangement dropped the charge Davis faced for setting fire to the kitchen of the church by placing a hymnal on the oven.

The plea arrangement, in which the first nine months are intensive probation, carry numerous requirements, which if breached could send Davis to prison for up to 158 months, Judge Alma Hinton said at the time.

Those stipulations include him finishing his Graduate Equivalency Diploma, curfews, random drug tests, continuing psychiatric and drug rehabilitation treatment and paying restitution to businesses and people he stole from.

He must pay $3,046 to Bolling Road Express; $1,420 to Michael Wells and $484 to Bobby’s.

The plea bargain reflects four felonious breaking and entering charges and a charge of breaking and entering into a place of worship.

Assistant District Attorney Kanter Searcy Morris told the court then two of the counts go back to 2009 and two of them, including the church break-in, are from 2010.

They include Davis stealing liquor and food from a party on Gowen Drive and stealing cash and other items from another place.

On July 20, 2010, he broke into a garage and stole a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and rode it to Walmart where he was stealing items there, Morris said.

Jackson told the court then police were called to a break-in at the church on Ashton Street on July 21 of last year. Officers found a hymnal had been set on fire by placing it on the stove and a fire extinguisher had been sprayed.

Officers also discovered, “White power forever,” had been written on an easel  in the church.

Jackson said police tracked the crime to Davis after investigators learned he was trying to switch a pair of Red Wing boots for another pair at Walmart.

Boot prints left in the fire extinguisher powder at the church matched boots Davis bought at American Shoe Shop on Roanoke Avenue.