CRIME * From staff reports

A high-speed chase that started in Tallulah Monday afternoon around 4 ended in Vicksburg without an arrest.

The chase began after a man stole a pipeline worker’s Ford F-350 from U.S. 65 South before driving onto Interstate 20 East, Madison Parish Chief Deputy Sammie Byrd said. He was chased by Madison Parish deputies and Vicksburg Police before abandoning the truck in the 3400 block of Halls Ferry Road and escaping on foot.

The vehicle was returned to its owner with minor damage.

Tallulah man charged with armed robbery

A Tallulah man was in the Madison Parish Jail without bond after being charged with armed robbery Monday afternoon.

Demitrius L.S. Scott, 601 Holt St., entered the office of Tallulah’s Country Meadows Apartment Complex on North Cedar Street at 2 p.m. and found the manager was alone in her office, said Detective Lee Brandly, investigator with the Tallulah Police Department. Scott asked to sit down out of the heat, Brandly said.

The suspect left the office and returned with a rifle, demanding the manager’s money, the officer said. After the manager tossed her purse to him, Brandly said, Scott ran to the north part of the building where he was arrested.

How the arrest came so quickly was not clear.

Two jailed on bond for checks, embezzlement

Two Vicksburg men were arrested on unrelated theft charges Monday afternoon.

Larry Bobo, 52, 310 Cane Ridge Road, was arrested at 1:38 p.m. and charged with embezzlement. Bond was set at $2,500, Vicksburg Police Lt. Bobby Stewart said.

His place of employment was not clear.

Danny Lee Jones, 53, 523 Farmer St., was arrested at 4:59 p.m. during a traffic stop in the 1300 block of Mission 66 on an outstanding felony warrant for bad checks.

Bond was set at $5,000. Jones remained in the Warren County Jail this morning.

Hot and cold: Furs, air conditioners missing

Televisions, a pistol and bunk beds are among items stolen Monday.

At 12:38 p.m., a residential burglary was reported in the 1000 block of Burnt House Road. Clothing and furs valued at $100 were reported stolen.

A residential burglary was reported at 6:09 p.m. in the 1700 block of Martha Street. Stolen were a bunk bed set valued at $590, a portable GE refrigerator valued at $200, a 13-inch Sanyo television valued at $190 and a 25-inch Sanyo television valued at $250.

A 2000 Ford F-150 was reported broken into at 6:27 p.m. in the 1100 block of North Frontage Road. A Browning 25 semi-automatic pistol valued at $600 was stolen.

At 9:11 p.m., a car burglary was reported in the 2100 block of U.S. 61 North. Stolen was a purse.

A residential burglary was reported at 9:25 p.m. in the 100 block of Demby Drive. A 19-inch Sanyo television valued at $180 and a 27-inch Emerson television valued at $250 were stolen.

Shooting victim reported in stable condition at UMC

A Vicksburg man wounded early Sunday in a drive-by shooting on Speed Street was in stable condition this morning at University Medical Center in Jackson, a hospital spokesman said.

David Becker, 26, 712 Speed St., was shot in the chest, arm and both legs at 2:47 a.m. after a brawl.

Eric Campbell, 27, 503 Fairground St., and Antonio Glasper, 22, 74 Redhawk Road, were arrested and remained in the Warren County Jail this morning. An $80,000 bond was set for Glasper. No bond was set for Campbell. Both were charged with two counts of aggravated assault, one count of drive-by shooting and one count of shooting into a dwelling.

A second man injured in the shooting, Lee Sherman Yates, 42, also of 712 Speed, was treated and released from River Region Medical Center.