A warrant had been issued Monday for Ricky Lumus Burden, 20, of LaGrange, who police saw riding in the back of a pickup truck about 2 p.m. Tuesday on Hamilton Road. Police stopped the truck and took Burden into custody.
Two men with a shotgun entered the store about 4 a.m. Monday and stole an undisclosed amount of money.
The other suspect, Sean Bradford McDowell, 23, of LaGrange, was arrested shortly after the robbery after a brief car chase that ended at Wood Glen apartments on North Cary Street.
Sheriff’s chief investigator Charles Nixon said a shotgun, mask and gloves were found in the car.
Doped-up patient arrested
A 56-year-old patient released Tuesday from West Georgia Medical Center was arrested on DUI charges before he could even get out of the parking lot.
The Atlanta man’s nurse had told him not to drive because of narcotics in his system. Hospital security officer Mike Ellington watched the man get into his Nissan Sentra and stopped him just before he could leave the parking lot and get onto Vernon Road.
Sheriff’s deputy Matthew Boswell went to the scene and spoke with the driver, who said he wasn’t thinking clearly when he told the nurse that somebody was waiting outside to drive him back to Atlanta. The nurse said he had been given two doses of dilaudid and patients are told not to drive after even one dose.
Boswell arrested the man for driving under the influence and took him to jail.
Arrests
— Jerry Lee Addison Jr., 25 of Hamilton Road in Pine Mountain was charged with burglary.
— Gregory Alan Vandagriff, 41, of Sharpsburg was charged by Hogansville police with two counts of burglary.
Wreck
One person was injured in a three-car wreck about 7:50 p.m. Tuesday on David Drive near the entrance to Wal-Mart.
LaGrange police said Desmond Davis, 16, of Park Avenue was eastbound when his Ford Aerostar turned left into the path of a oncoming Hyundai Tiburon driven by Jacob Shambaugh, 18, of Riverbend Drive. The vehicles collided, and both vehicles then struck a Friendly Cab driven by Johnny Person, 60, of Mooty Bridge Road.
Davis was treated at West Georgia Medical Center and released. He was cited for failure to yield and for driving with an instructional permit without someone 21 or older with him.
Thefts, burglaries
— Four bronze wind chimes, with a total value of $600, were stolen from a residence in the first block of Thornton Street.
— A burglar went into a vacant residence at 74 Wilcox Road and stole a large bass speaker.
— A resident of the 2600 block of Roanoke Road reported the theft of unspecified items valued at $500 from her carport.
Purse probed
A student at Long Cane Middle School left her purse behind after homeroom class Monday morning. The teacher looked inside for identification and found a box cutter and two lighters, prompting an investigation by sheriff’s Sgt. Mark Chaney.
Guilty pleas
— John Henry Green, 45, of LaGrange was sentenced to 20 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to an attempted burglary at Loan Depot, a burglary at Dairy Queen on New Franklin Road and possession of tools for the commission of a crime.
In exchange for the plea, prosecutors dismissed charges that Green committed another burglary at Dairy Queen as well as burglaries at Roger’s Barbecue on New Franklin Road and a storage building at Loan Depot.
— Rokei Jerqunte Winston, 25, of Lanett, Ala., was sentenced to 15 years in prison for home invasion robberies on Kelley Street and Colorado Court.
Winston pleaded guilty to charges of armed robbery, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of burglary and one count of robbery by force.
A jury had been picked for Winston’s trial before he decided to plead guilty.
“They had DNA evidence (from a cigarette butt) and a confession,” said defense attorney Jon Rasnick of Manchester. “I don’t know why we were going to trial.”
— Antonio Demorris Ransom, 27, of LaGrange was sentenced to two years in the county Correctional Institute, six years’ probation and fines of $1,275 for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
- It is the policy of LaGrange Daily News to print the names of people charged with felonies.
Post a Comment
