Furniture, electronics among missing items

Published 12:00 am Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Electronics and furniture were among items reported missing in Vicksburg Monday, police Lt. Bobby Stewart said.

A Broksonic 19-inch color TV valued at $150 was reported stolen from a home in the 100 block of Bazinsky Road at 11:23 a.m.

A GE microwave valued at $75, three end tables valued at $75 each and Sony radio boom box valued at $30 were reported stolen from a home in the 3700 block of North Washington Street at 4:23 p.m.

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In Warren County, a car and electronics were reported stolen.

A 1986 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham valued at $3,000 was reported stolen from a home in the 100 block of Lucinda Lane at 7:25 p.m. Monday.

About $300 in cash, a Sony PlayStation 2 game console valued at $100, a Philips MP3 player valued at $49, another MP3 player valued at $26, a Nintendo DS game console valued at $200 and four PlayStation games valued at $120 were reported stolen from a home in the 200 block of Greenbriar Drive at 1:34 this morning.

About $3 and a Delphi Roady XM radio valued at $35 were reported stolen from a 2005 Dodge Stratus in the 2500 block of Culkin Road at 10:11 p.m. Monday.

A Nintendo Wii Fit pad valued at $89, an Xbox 360 game console with cables and controllers valued at $399 and a Wii Sports Resort game valued at $49 were reported stolen from a home in the 300 block of Pleasant Valley Drive at 12:48 p.m. Monday.

Tire theft foiled; two men in jail

Two Vicksburg men were arrested this morning for grand larceny after being confronted by a homeowner.

Craig Vickers, 19, 345 Buford Drive, and David Cochran, 19, 20 Post Oak Road, are accused of taking four tires and rims from a Chevrolet pickup parked at a home in the 100 block of Buford Drive at about 6 a.m., Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace said.

The homeowner “had disrupted a theft in progress,” Pace said.

Vickers and Cochran were being held without bond pending an initial court appearance.

Jackson man held for probation violation

A Jackson man was in the Warren County Jail today for probation violation, records showed.

Oscar Williams, 40, 795 Siwell Road, was being held for the Mississippi Department of Corrections without bond.

Surveillance shows building break-in

A man was spotted on surveillance footage this morning breaking into the old vacant Kroger building on Pemberton Square Boulevard.

The video showed a man wearing dark clothes enter and immediately leave through a fire exit at about 1 a.m., Vicksburg police Lt. Bobby Stewart said.

“Nothing seemed to be out of place or missing,” he said.