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Monday, August 17, 2009

Victims Recognize What Burglar Left Behind

   A couple who found themselves to be the victims of a burglary Sunday were able to identify the burglar by what he left behind.

   According to reports filed through the Lawrence County Sheriff’s Department, deputies were summoned to 80 Pleasant Valley Road in Ethridge around 6:00 p.m. The residents reported that while they were away, someone had broken in through a window on the rear of the home. Once inside the burglar took a shotgun, a gun safe and medications.

   The residents indicated that a pair of reading glasses found in the bedroom where the gun safe had been stored, apparently belonged to the burglar. They told deputies that the glasses belonged to their neighbor and that they had seen him wearing them earlier in the day.

   At that point, the deputy reports that the female resident began walking to her neighbor’s home to confront him. The deputy reports that he followed her into the yard to stop her but that a male resident suddenly fled through the rear door, then attempted to hide behind a large dog house.

   The deputy reports that he approached slowly with his pistol drawn because he did not know whether the subject was armed. When he could tell that the man was unarmed he holstered his weapon and took out his handcuffs. He informed the man that he was going to be detained in connection with the burglary next door. When he grabbed the man’s arm to handcuff him, he reports that the man began to struggle. The deputy then sprayed the man with pepper spray. The man then reportedly ran from the yard and down the road where he took refuge in a field.

   Once backup arrived on the scene a search was conducted, however after an hour deputies had been unable at that time to locate the suspect. They opted, instead, to discontinue the search and try to locate the suspect at a later time.

   When they returned to the home, deputies report they found the missing gun safe full of ammunition and medications inside the dog house, concealed beneath some empty dog food bags. There was no sign of the missing shotgun.

   The victim telephoned deputies later to report that he had located the shotgun in the suspect’s bedroom, beside his bed. Deputies report they had searched there earlier and that the shotgun was not there.

   Warrants were obtained against the suspect, twenty-seven-year-old Dewayne Adams of 82 Pleasant Valley Road, charging him with the crimes of aggravated burglary, vandalism, theft, resisting arrest, and evading arrest.

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