2 confess to stealing Dodge Ram from Gallatin local

The Dodge had been reported as stolen on Feb. 19. The vehicle was reportedly stolen between 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 18 to 7:10 a.m. on Feb. 19. The Daviess County Sheriff’s Office posted about the missing vehicle on Feb. 19, asking anyone with information to call. The vehicle was recently recovered in the Kansas City area.

According to a probable cause statement provided by the Daviess County Sheriff’s Office, both Clint E. Vinzant, 27, and Mallory J. Shomaker, 31, confessed to a Kansas City, Missouri, police detective while in custody to stealing the truck from the owner’s driveway.

The truck’s owner was able to retrieve his vehicle from a Kansas City tow yard. During inventory, he found a cattle tattoo gun and ear-tags that were later identified as belonging to another Gallatin resident.

Shomaker and Vinzant both have prior criminal history. Shomaker had prior convictions for forgery and possession of drug paraphernalia with numerous pending charges in the KC area and an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court. Vinzant has a warrant from Sullivan County, numerous outstanding warrants from KC area, and five failures to appear. He also has multiple convictions including theft, possession of drug paraphernalia, operating a vehicle without a valid license, leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident, tampering with a vehicle, driving while impaired by alcohol, unlawful imprisonment, reckless endangerment, fleeing a police officer in a vehicle, petty larceny, and possession of stolen property.

Both Shomaker and Vinzant have been charged with stealing a motor vehicle, D felony and stealing, A misdemeanor.