Kansas man charged in Vermont trailer theft

A year after a trailer went missing in Vermont, a Kansas man has been charged with stealing it.

Thirty-seven-year-old Robert Morse, who has addresses in Hutchinson and Newport, Vt., pleaded not guilty July 8 to buying, receiving, selling, possession or concealing stolen property.

He’s being held at Northern State Correctional Facility in Newport.

The trailer turned up missing July 6, 2010, from NEVTEC, a Newport company that manufactures commercial kitchen and industrial ventilation systems. One of the company’s employees spotted it later at Wright’s Enterprises, in Derby, Vt., where it was being sold on consignment. The Caledonian Record reports that the seller told police he bought it from Morse.