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Last updated on Friday, November 7, 2014
(BEDFORD) - Lawrence County Police have arrested 18-year-old Dalton Burton. Burton is a suspect in several auto thefts and thefts from vehicle in the Mitchell area.
On Thursday, Lawrence County Police were looking for 18-year-old Dalton Burton and asked for the public's help in finding him. Burton is a suspect in several auto thefts and thefts from vehicles in the Mitchell area.
Burton is a white male, with red hair and blue eyes and is 6 feet tall and weighs about 150 pounds. His last known address was 52 Persimmon Park Apartments.
Police believe he was involved in stealing three vehicles from the Mitchell area.
According to a probable cause affidavit, the vehicles, belonging to three different people, were stolen during early morning hours of Oct. 20.
A minivan, which was taken from the area of Warren Street in Mitchell, was found abandoned at Compton Apartments in Mitchell. A Chevrolet Blazer taken from Easy Street in Mitchell and was found abandoned on a roadway and out of gas at 4:37 a.m. on Oct. 20. A GMC truck was stolen from the Rabbitsville Road area and was later found, also abandoned, in the Emerson gym parking lot in Mitchell.
Lawrence County Police Det. Tyler Phillips, after receiving information about possible suspects, talked with Jason T. Jones, who admitted to stealing the three vehicles along with Burton and 16-year-old Clint Ferguson.
19-year-old Jason T. Jones of Mitchell was arrested on Oct. 22 on two counts of auto theft and two counts of unauthorized entry of a vehicle.
Ferguson was arrested and is facing three counts of auto theft and unauthorized entry of a vehicle.
Jones told police the minivan was taken first.
The teenagers drove it to Easy Street where they took the Blazer. They then drove the minivan and the Blazer until the sport-utility vehicle ran out of gas.
Jones then picked up Burton and the third boy in the minivan. They drove around Mitchell and Bedford until they abandoned the minivan.
They then stole the GMC truck. Jones dropped the other two off at their homes and abandoned the truck at Emerson gym.
Burton was also arrested in May 2012. He was 15-years-old and was was suspected of burglarizing two businesses, stealing at least one vehicle and committing a rash of vehicle break-ins. He was charged with burglary, receiving stolen property and auto theft and was taken to the Jackson County Juvenile Detention Center.
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