WHITE CO., Ill. - A theft of batteries report made at a rural White County location, and an arrest on warrants at the courthouse in Carmi highlight yesterday's White County Sheriff's Department activity.
The activity report, submitted by Sheriff Doug Maier, indicates that one of his deputies, Sgt. Craig Poole, responded to a 9:22 a.m. call yesterday morning (Wednesday, October 24) to a farm location in the rural Norris City area.
There, David Kingston, 68, reported that some time after 6 p.m. the evening before (Tuesday, Oct. 23), he had two batteries stolen off a tractor.
The batteries were described as two 12-volt heavy-duty batteries. The negative lead was cut off and taken as well, the report shows. Kingston advised that two front lights were cut off the tractor, which was parked off the roadway in a field by a woods in a secluded location when the damage/theft occurred. Poole photographed footprint marks left on a piece of plastic that was taken off the tractor. There was no estimate available on the loss at the time of the report.
In courthouse action Wednesday, Deputy Mike Thomas, assigned to court security for the day, had another one of his serving-warrant-on-someone-in-the-courtroom situations.
Mark Johnson
Reports indicate that at approximately 10:35 a.m. Wednesday, Thomas took Mark W. Johnson, 56, to White County Court, apparently from the jail, where Johnson had been lodged since his arrest on Monday the 22nd. That was the day when Johnson had showed up for a previously-scheduled court hearing and was arrested on a new White County misdemeanor Retail Theft warrant, this arrest effected by none other than Thomas.
The new warrant was for felonies: Burgarly, Theft, Possession of Meth, Possession of a Controlled Substance, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Possession of Cannabis Plants (5 of these). A second warrant issued was for Burglary and Theft. Bond on these was set at $5,000, and Johnson remains in the county jail pending posting of it.