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Guns, computers taken from business

News | Published on Wednesday November 7, 2007

A Monday night burglary at Eagle Pest Management at 1775 Porter St. resulted in the loss of computers and black powder firearms, according to Deputy Dustin Robbins with the Independence County Sheriff’s Office.

Robbins said the burglary was reported after employees reported to work and found an inner office broken into and an inspection of the building revealed a burglary had taken place.

An employee, Bill Armer, told Robbins two laptop computers valued at $2,000 each and owned by the business, along with some personal items were missing from the building.

“The personal items that were taken included two black powder handguns, three hand-made bone handled knives, and a plaque containing six $2 bills,” Robbins said. The items were valued at $460.

Armer said the door to an accountant’s office in the front of the building had been forced open and this alerted employees that something was amiss. Two window screens were later found cut and removed from the windows where it is believed burglars entered the building.

Criminal Investigations Division officers examined the building and gathered evidence and serial numbers of the items taken in order to enter them into a national data base ofstolen items.

Total valued of items stolen and damage to the building was listed at $3,680, according to Robbins.

No suspects were listed.

In other reports filed with the sheriff’s office:

• A Sulphur Rock woman reported her 2003 Chrysler Sebring stolen from her residence at 599 Young Road overnight Monday night.

Danielle Lee Naslund said the car was in the driveway at 11 p.m. and when she awoke around 8:25 a.m., it was missing.

Naslund said the car was unlocked with the keys in the ignition when it was taken.

No suspects were listed.

• Ronald Duncan of Floral reported prescription medication he gets from the Veterans Administration stolen from his residence sometime in the past few days.

No suspects were listed in the case.

• Johnny Gilpatrick, an employee with AT&T phone company reported Tuesday that phone lines on McHue Road had been damaged by gunshots overnight Monday.

Gilpatrick said a phone line trunk of 200 and 600 pairs of lines, respectively, sustained about $3,000 in damages by shots from a gun of unknown caliber.

“Mr. Gilpatrick advised they (AT&T) have had the two phone lines dug up for awhile working on them and the phone company has been getting several complaints over the lines,” Deputy Jimmy Smith said.

No suspects were listed.

­­—from submitted reports