VERMILLION COUNTY, Ind – Tips to Vermillion County Police led to the arrest of a man on theft charges.

Police say that neighbors on Reed Street in St. Bernice saw two men they knew take shingles from a residence.

Deputies found several bundles of shingles were at the Earl Antonio Avenatti residence on State Road 71.

They spoke with both Avenatti and his juvenile grandson and they told the officers that they would agreed to return the shingles.

Officers say that they only returned part of the shingles.

Avenatti was arrested for theft and criminal trespass and information on the juvenile was forwarded to the Prosecutors office.

The 78-year-old Avenatti was arrested and taken to the Vermillion County Jail.