A 50-year-old Bonners Ferry man faces up to seven years in prison after entering a plea agreement for grand theft by possession of stolen property. The case broke when Jessee Lee Marble was being arrested on an active warrant August 25, 2022, and a gray Ford F-250 on the property that Marble had been seen driving, not reported stolen at the time, wasn’t registered to him.
On September 22, 2022, the owner was contacted at his Highway 1 residence, and not only had the pickup been stolen, so too had a 1971 Starcraft boat that Marble had sold to a Montana resident in Moyie Springs on September 21, 2021. The boat, was eventually recovered and returned to its rightful owner after subsequently being resold to a Sandpoint resident.
On August 13, 2024, Marble was formally charged with two counts of grand theft by possession of stolen property and unlawful possession of a firearm for a pistol found in the seat of the pickup at the time of his warrant arrest and him having three felony convictions in Washington County, Oregon, for drug possession, first degree theft and second degree robbery between 1996 and 1998.
Under the plea agreements, he pled guilty to possession of the pickup and the two additional charges were dropped.
He was sentenced August 20 by Judge Susie Jenkins to three years in prison, determinate, four years indeterminate, with credit for three days served, prison suspended, with three years felony probation with electronic monitoring. He must pay $7,900 restitution to the victims and $245.50 costs.
In a separate case filed May 22, 2025, Marble was charged with felony possession of a controlled substance and possession of paraphernalia with a persistent violator enhancement, and he pled guilty to possession of paraphernalia, for which he was sentenced to 92 days in jail and a $197.50 fine.