South Carolina man charged with breaking into Rowan home by cat door
Published 12:00 am Friday, March 8, 2024
SALISBURY — A South Carolina man has been arrested after police mentioned he was caught breaking right into a home by a cat door.
Deputies have been initially known as at roughly 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday to a home on Erskine Drive in reference to a breaking and getting into that had simply occurred, a spokesperson for the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office mentioned.
When they arrived, the residents of the home informed the deputies that they’d discovered the person on their entrance porch after investigating when the facility immediately minimize off of their bed room. When the husband tried to talk with the person he “engaged in nonsensical conversation,” the spokesperson mentioned.
The man then received into his automobile and drove into the neighbor’s driveway earlier than allegedly returning to the victims’ driveway two instances and trying to strategy the residence. The victims informed the deputies that they noticed proof that the person had entered the home by the cat door, together with the person’s hat mendacity in entrance of it.
Another deputy had really stopped and recognized the person on the intersection of Highway 29 and Bostian Road quickly after the dispatch. The man, recognized as 27-year-old Jimmy Lee Spann, was arrested and charged with first-degree housebreaking and larceny after breaking and getting into. While looking out Spann in the course of the arrest, the deputy discovered a white TV distant that had been stolen from the home.
Spann was placed within the Rowan County Detention Center and given a $100,000 bond.
Spann is listed by police information as a resident of Gaffney, South Carolina.
