A warrant was issued a couple of weeks ago for a man wanted on a theft charge as well as drug charges. That warrant is still outstanding and this afternoon, Bloomfield police asked for information to help locate him.

Michael D. Fields, mug shot from 2017. Photo courtesy of Greene County Sheriff’s Department

Michael D. Fields, 54, is wanted on a warrant that was issued on Friday, August 23, following an investigation led by Detective Shawn Cullison of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department. Court records indicate Fields has a home address on South Walnut Grove Road, Scotland. However, on August 19, he was living at a residence on Cold Springs Road, Bloomfield.

This case is related to a few other cases and investigations by the sheriff’s department and the Bloomfield Police Department so numerous officers have been involved including Bloomfield Town Marshal Ken Tharp and Deputy Marshals Marvin Holt and Ryan Montgomery and GCSD Deputies Alan Jackson and Sgt. Bobby Pierce and possibly others.

Several things happened on Monday, August 19, that led to this warrant.

Around noon, Det. Cullison responded to a home on East Sand Ridge Road in the Bloomfield area where a woman said several of her outbuildings had been broken into with numerous items missing including a large black Polaris telescope, a gray miter saw and a vacuum. The resident believed the burglary had occurred the night before or early that morning. She said someone had removed the clasps that locked the outbuildings.

Then around 2:45 p.m., Det. Cullison was dispatched, along with BPD Marshal Ken Tharp, to a home on Cold Springs Road on the report of a domestic dispute between Aaron Weber and Michelle Snyder. Fields was the caller who contacted law enforcement about an altercation.

According to a probable cause document written by Det. Cullison, both Fields and Snyder lived at the residence. Since they were dispatched, both Weber and Snyder and another man have been arrested in related cases.

While Det. Cullison was inside the house talking to Fields, he said he noticed a large black telescope sitting in the kitchen of the home that matched the description of the telescope reported as stolen earlier in the day. Nobody who was at the residence that day seemed to know where the telescope had come from then Fields said he had found it in a ditch down the road.

Det. Cullison asked for permission to search the house for other stolen items but was refused. So he requested a search warrant which was approved by Judge Dena Martin and around 5 p.m., numerous officers conducted the search.

Det. Cullison reported that during this search, in a bedroom believed to have been occupied by Fields, they found two syringes on the floor, bent spoons with a white powder residue on a bedside table along with a wallet with identification for Fields as well as the telescope. One of the spoons tested positive for the presence of methamphetamine.

When Fields is apprehended, he will be facing preliminary charges of: