Residential burglaries are way up. They usually are this time of the year.This week has been no different. In the last three weeks we have busted three different groups "cracking houses." One group was lucky enough to escape getting killed after getting their car peppered with buckshot because of a severe miscalculation in the victim selection process. (they didn't know the victim was at home) They were apprehended a couple of hours later. They were wanted in only six states. Read my thread on "It Could Have Been Bad." Another was doing house trailers. Also busted. If I had a criminal mind and wanted to make a lot of money, it wouldn't be cracking house trailers.

Earlier this week Raymone, Tyrone, and Tavarious decided they would get into the residential burglary business. They started with us in the northern part of Forrest County on Monday. Some folks who had been at work came home and found their home broken into by some folks who weren't at work. The back door had been kicked in. Tire tracks were at the back door where they loaded up a flat screen TV, assorted coins in a jar, a laptop, and a Lorcin .380 pistol. The next stop was over in nearby Lamar County on Tuesday. Same MO but a neighbor saw a white car damaged on the right side and a vague description of the occupants. Same kind of stuff stolen. Yesterday a couple of trailers were hit. Both had the back doors kicked in with similar stuff missing.

At 10:25 a.m. this morning reserve Deputy Carl, who checks water meters for a water association since his retirement from a real job observed three guys running from the rear door of a house across the street from a rural grammer school. Carl knows everyone on his route and knew they weren't supposed to be there. He's also been with our reserves for over 20 years and knows what's going on. He followed the white car with obvious damage to the right side, but was unable to get a tag number. He lost them after a couple of miles. I met Carl at the house and we found the back door had been kicked in. The kicker left a nice shoeprint. Carl knew the homeowner and called her to meet us there. She arrived in just a few minutes and told us she was missing two flat screened TV's, two jars of asssorted coins, a laptop computer, and some jewelry. We BOLO'd (be on the lookout) to nearby agencies and spread out and started looking, leaving one officer there to do the report and fingerprinting.

About an hour later Deputy Tony spotted a car fitting the description. He was going in the opposite direction and the car turned off trying to avoid him. A few minutes later he located the car and blocked it in in front of a liquor store. I was right behind him. Some more deputies arrived and we separated them and asked them questions about where they had been and where they were going. Tyrone, Tavarious, and Raymone all told us different stories. We called Deputy Carl and he arrived and told us they were the ones he had seen at the burgled house. Hook up time. I had seen the footprint and told Raymone to let me see the bottom of his foot. The print matched. I told Raymone that someone was going to read him his rights and ask him about that shoeprint. If body language could speak it would have been screaming.

Raymone was the first to break. The footprint got him talking. Tyrone and Tavarious still weren't saying anything. When I got off at 5:00 p.m. they still weren't talking. I suspect that will change later. Ramone told us where the stuff was. We went to an apartment and no one was there. Deputy Trey went to get a search warrant while I watched the apartment. Two older black guys were playing dominos out front. I got to talking and joking with them and one of them told me if I could beat him he would tell me something. I got him by five points and when his friend went inside to get rid of some beer he told me he watched a flatscreen TV being transferred from the white car to another car. He gave me a good description of the other car. We'll check it out tomorrow.

Deputy Trey came back with the search warrant. In the meantime I had called the apartment manager and convinced him it would be cheaper for him to get me a pass key than it would be for him to buy a new door. I had the key when Trey got back with the search warrant. We went in and found stuff we were missing from three burglaries and a lot of other stuff we knew had to be stolen. We inventoried what we seized and left a copy of the inventory in the apartment and took a pickup load of stuff back to the office. We've got one good statement from Ramone and will show it to the silent ones tomorrow or Monday. They'll come around and probably start pointing the finger at each other. We haven't found the Lorcin yet but we've got most of the other stuff. There's still lots to do on this one.

Charlie, thanks for the tale. Let us know how long they will be wards of the state.

Another fine reporting job by our own Charlie. But we have some neer do wells here as well. Some punk burgled my favorite pizza parlor a week ago, then set fire to cover it up. Took the cops a couple of days to get this 19 YO idiot. He's in hoosgow with $500,000 bail. Hope he rots in there. Dave had the best pizza in the county. And folks around here are hoping Dave reopens soon. But the building is pretty well destroyed.

Another excellent and entertaining account of stupid miscreants proving, once again, that crime doesn't pay...

Charlie, unless you were referring to some educational institution for our colloquially called forebears, that's grammar school...

Please keep these tales coming --- they are gems!

Excellent story, exceeded only by the superior police work. Good job.

I wonder how many of those folks realize that with the new Castle Laws in most Southern states, that they stand a good chance of getting splattered over the landscape if they practice "severe miscalculation in the victim selection process"?

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Thanks Charlie,
Sounds like these guys pretty much work from the same play-book,
which ends up witth"Hey, arrest me!".
I feel sorry for the homeowners, who have had their privacy and
peace-of-mind shattered, but at least you got most,(or all), of their
belongings back. Glad your crew is there! TACC1

Good deal. More bad guys off the street. Good work.

Poor, poor Tyrone, Tavarious, and Ramone. I'd bet they were gonna use the money from their adventures to turn their lives around and get on the straight and narrow from here on out!

Thanks for the story, Mr. Sherrill

Will the local papers feature their 8th grade graduation photos and family quotes about what good boys they are? Or does that BS only fly in New York?

Oh yeah, nice collar too.

Heck Sir, with a few more detail and that would have been a great report for the office . Good job to get the *&^%&&* off the streets. Just be carefull Sir.

Substitute St. Mary Parish Louisiana and the story repeats itself over and over BTW Tavarious seems to becoming a popular name-I've seen a couple of Tavarious's lately. Reminds me of the twins-Wayne & D'Wayne. They always got confused on the police reports

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Three locals just tried to rip-off the duty belt and weapon from a deputy. Two were possibly in the house while deputy and family were there. They were putting goods in the vehicle in the garage. A call to 911 brought city officers. A search found one under the bed in a spare room where he struggled with the deputy, was subdued and arrested by the city officers.
I'll bet that was interesting.
By the way, the other vehicle in the garage was the marked sheriffs patrol unit.
Be safe Charlie.

Raymone, Tyrone, and Tavarious were just doing some Christmas shopping. Mistook those homes for Walmart mini stores. Happens all the time around here. Over in Chicago last week one of those misunderstood kinda burglar guys got an "early out" in Illinois revolving door incarceration policy. Within 2 weeks he burgled a garage across the alley from where he be staying. When investegating officers were on the scene in the garage the perp walked up on them. Perp asks: " what are chances guy will get caught"? One officer says: "pretty good we're pulling prints". Perp does not want go back to jail, so he pulls his steel and shoots both officers in the head. Perp starts to walk away when he hears one officer moan meaning he's still alive. Perp walks back and shoots them both in the head a second time. Guy was caught just days later and told the whole story. Burglars are dangerous guys.

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Just change the names to Jose, Julio, Jesus and Juan and you've got the current situation here in KY just now. Guess they are shopping for a happy Fleiz Navidad! They are, sooner or later, gonna meet up with Mr. Winchester or Mr. Remington who is going to speak in a loud, distinctive voice of a 12 guage loaded with 00 Buck! Ain't gonna be pretty!