LAWRENCE/JASPER COs., Ill. - Two days after they are alleged to have taken off through a rural area of Jasper and then Lawrence Counties, formal charges have been filed against Shane Babbs and Tabitha Carwile.
The two have been identified as the subject of a police search, which included every law enforcement officer in Lawrence County, as well as a state police K9 unit and a fixed-wing flight, this after they ran into a marshy wooded area outside Chauncey in Lawrence County and somehow got either lost or stuck.
They were joined by Richland and Crawford officials, and a Game Warden with the IDNR, largely because the fear was that one of the two - reportedly Babbs - had suffered some kind of injury or condition that was causing him to cry out for help from the wooded area, which is what neighbors in the vicinity were hearing.
It was discovered that the alleged crimes took place in Richland, not Jasper or Lawrence.
They're being held at the Richland County Detention Center, both on preliminary charges of Residential Burglary, wherein they are accused of breaking in to homes in the rural location of Richland County, and stealing guns.
We'll have more as it becomes available.
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