Thursday, July 8, 2010
Blood Trail Leads To Burglar’s Bed
Police officers investigating an attempted break-in to a Berger Street home report they were able to follow a blood trail straight to the would-be burglar’s bed.
Lawrenceburg Police Officers were dispatched to Berger Street on a burglary in progress call around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday, July 3. The resident reported someone had broken the glass in his front door, reached inside to unlock the deadbolt, then fled on foot when the burglar alarm began to sound.
Officers report finding blood on the broken door glass as well as on the porch railing. A search revealed blood spots on the carport at a duplex next door. Officers followed the blood trail through the back yard to Groh Street. There they followed the blood, as well as footprints in the grass. Blood was smeared on the side of a motor home along the way, then lead along the sidewalk, to the front door of 125 Groh Street.
When they knocked, officers report a female answered the door. They could then see that the blood trail continued inside the home. It lead them across the living room floor and into a bedroom; straight to the bed of the woman’s twenty-year-old son. More blood was found on the man’s bed sheets.
Officers report the man, Christopher Kelsey Egly, had sustained a cut to his right pinky finger. He was subsequently placed under arrest on charges of aggravated burglary and vandalism, and transported to the Lawrence County Jail.
Egly is scheduled to answer the charges through Lawrence County General Sessions Court on September 3, 2010.
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