Two teenagers from western Garland County were arrested Monday evening in connection with a string of burglaries that occurred in that area earlier this month.
Haleigh Michelle Fisher, 18, who lists an Ann Street address, and Latrell Quandarries Jackson, 18, who lists a Crystal Hill Road address, were both taken into custody shortly after 6:30 p.m. and each charged with three counts of residential burglary, each punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Fisher and Jackson were each being held on a $15,000 bond and are set to appear today in Garland County District Court.
According to the probable cause affidavit, on Oct. 18, a man who lives in the area of Ann Street, located in western Garland County north of Lake Ouachita, was checking on a friend's residence on the same street and noted a white pickup truck with a flat tire in the driveway.
He stopped to check the truck and a young white female came from a cabin across the street and told him the truck had a flat tire and they just parked it there until they could get it fixed. The man checked his friend's residence and discovered it had been forcibly entered and all the appliances and other property were missing, a total of $3,655 in value.
That same day, another man arrived at his cabin on Ann Street, which was the residence the woman was seen emerging from earlier, and found a female, known to him as Haleigh, and a black male inside. He noted the front door of the cabin and another interior door had been forced open. The male and female left and afterward the man discovered about $1,150 of property missing.
Garland County sheriff's investigators determined the female was Fisher, who at one time was living at her grandfather's residence on Ann Street, next door to the cabin. She also listed that as her address at the time of her arrest.
Investigators determined the male was Jackson and learned property taken from both of the residences that had been broken into was later found to have been posted for sale by Jackson and Fisher on Facebook Marketplace and Swap Shop.
On Oct. 22, the owner of the cabin discovered it had again been forcibly entered and more property stolen, including numerous sleeping bags, valued at $210. He also reportedly saw Fisher and Jackson at the residence next door trying to remove a boat parked in the yard and noted they were driving a white pickup truck. When he approached them, they left.
On Oct. 23, the daughter of the owner of the residence where Fisher had previously stayed called investigators to report she found several items of property that didn't belong there, including four sleeping bags later determined to be the ones stolen from the cabin next door.
The owner of the cabin later reportedly picked Fisher and Jackson out of a photo lineup and identified them as the two he had found inside his cabin on Oct. 18 and back on the property on Oct. 22. Warrants for both were issued on Saturday.
Fisher lists no prior criminal history, but Jackson was arrested Sept. 17 on misdemeanor charges of second-degree terroristic threatening and third-degree battery. He was released two days later on $2,000 bond and pleaded not guilty to the charges on Oct. 7. He is set to stand trial on the charges on Nov. 7.
Local on 10/30/2019