The Liberty Police Department has taken a Hurricane Katrina evacuee, arrested and charged with theft elsewhere on Feb. 13, into custody and charged him in connection with driving the getaway van in a Feb. 20 burglary of the Brookshire Brothers grocery store located at 2325 N. Main St. in Liberty. Meanwhile investigators have been following leads left in the van in the search for three other alleged burglars who fled the vehicle.
Ronald Wayne Harvey, 35, had been uncooperative, as of deadline, in helping investigators to identify and to locate the other three suspects who fled the vehicle that he was driving on Highway 90 near Crosby, where Harris County Sheriff’s Department deputies set up devices that snagged a tire and stopped the vehicle, according to Liberty Police Department Lt. Chip Fairchild. Harvey, held at Liberty County Jail, has been charged with burglary of a building and felony evading arrest or detention with a vehicle. Police have recovered 20 cartons of cigarettes and clothing.
The Liberty Police Department received a call from store security at about 2 a.m. Security noticed that three subjects — their heads, faces and hands covered — had broken into the store. They had tried unsuccessfully to enter the pharmacy.
“What [security] reported to us was that they had surveillance going on of people in the store at that time,” Fairchild said. “Officers responded; we had a less than two-minute response time. Upon getting to the store, three individuals were coming out of the store, jumping into a silver-colored van. As the officer approached the van, the subjects fled.”
Deputies were ready for them.
“They crossed FM 2100 on Highway 90 where Harris County had set up spikes in the roadway,” Fairchild said. “One of the tires was punctured. They exited at the first exit on Highway 90 at the San Jacinto River bridge. At that point, three subjects exited the vehicle. One subject, the driver of the vehicle, was apprehended when the vehicle stopped. The three subjects that fled were actually the three that had been in the store.”
Deputies and officers have continued to pursue the trio, which, according to the lieutenant apparently had been a “part of a group that has been burglarizing stores all over this part of Texas,” based on previous similar arrests.
Courtesy HCN Cleveland
6 comments:
When Harry Kelly went to Leavenworth Prison in Kansas and his friend Henry Patterson was not convicted but continued to serve as Liberty county sheriff, weird things started to happen. Stories of strangers and strange "investigations" that Patterson is alleged to be connected to began to surface. The problem with Patterson defenders is that this was a federal investigation and any Kelly conspiracy defense sounds unlikely.
I am more than concerned that rumors of resources from our sheriff's department are disproportionately shifting to the Cleveland area because Sheriff Patterson wants to show voters in the north part of the county that what he ouldn't do as assistant police chief,he can do with the extra resources he has at his disposal as sheriff.
Yall leave Patterson alone. He cant help it. He has surrounded himself with true failure...Evans, Guthrie, and the rest of the Goon squad. There will be a big victory party at my house when Bobby Rader is elected the next sheriff of Liberty county.
LD: get out of bed with the Advocate, and their liberal allegiances. You can't straddle the fence, here.
That comment above was ridiculous! Basically Ray, whoever the idiot is that wrote that is saying is...write only what they feel you should write & be negative, so they'll have something else to talk about. I personally commend LD for engaging in professional relationships with other media. Partnership! And to the get out of the bed w/ the advocate, again...you're an idiot.
I agree. Ditch the advocate.
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