Sheriff’s office arrests three following chase
While traveling on Lake Adger Road in the Sunny View community on Monday, July 2, a passerby noticed a man climbing out a resident’s window carrying a television, according to Polk County Sheriff’s Office reports. The reports said the passerby made the emergency call and continued to follow the suspects, who droppred the television and fled the scene.
Officers caught up with the vehicle and chased the suspects on several roads until the vehicle wrecked along Big Level Road, hitting a stop sign and a ditch. The sheriff’s office reports that three suspects fled the vehicle on foot, with officer Jared McFalls immediately subduing one suspect. The two other suspects were apprehended a short time later.
The sheriff’s office also discovered the vehicle the suspects were driving, a 2012 Nissan Sentra, was reported stolen out of Henderson County.
Jevon Wayne Cornett, 23, of 143 Lelie Way, Hendersonville, was arrested and charged with possession of a stolen automobile, resisting a public officer, breaking and/or entering and larceny after break/enter, according to sheriff’s office reports.
Rico Amaro Shipman, 19, of 7 Barnowl Rd., Lot 2, Asheville, N.C., was arrested and charged with conspiring to break/enter a building, committing felony larceny, injury to personal property, breaking and/or entering and possession of burglary tools, according to sheriff’s office reports.
Jonathan Jamez Lebeck, 18, of 113 Pace St., Saluda, was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit felony larceny, injury to personal property and possession of burglary tools, according to sheriff’s office reports.
As of Tuesday, July 3, Cornett was still being held at the Polk County Jail under a $35,000 bond, Shipman was still being held under a $30,000 bond and Lebeck was still being held under a $20,0000 bond, according to the sheriff’s office.