Two burglaries have been committed in Lowndes County this week.
A Columbus man is in Lowndes County Sheriff’s Office custody after he allegedly broke into Potter’s Drive-In Monday night.
The suspect is accused of breaking into Potter’s on Jess Lyons Road between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Monday morning, according to LCSO Capt. Ryan Rickert. Officers identified Columbus resident Hunter Ryan Fields as a suspect based on video evidence and arrested him Monday at around 9 p.m. on Champion Road.
Fields, 23, is currently at the Lowndes County Adult Detention Center. He will be charged with burglary and felony escape, Rickert said.
The Columbus Police Department is also investigating a burglary at a house in the 900 block of 10th Avenue South, according to Interim Police Chief Fred Shelton. The burglary occurred Monday shortly after 8 p.m. The homeowner had been out to eat. She told police that when she arrived back home, she found a black male dressed in black in her home. The intruder ran out the back door, the homeowner said.
There were no injuries and nothing was reported to have been taken. There are no suspects in the case.
The burglary occurred in an area near another home invasion on Jan. 11, when a man was shot at a gathering during the National Championship. The victim died at a hospital in Tupelo a week later.
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