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Two Men Arrested in Motor Vehicle Break-Ins |
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| Jazmon Donta Brunson |
Eric Alexander Sumpter |
Lexington County Sheriff’s Department deputies on Friday, September 18 arrested a 20-year-old Sumter man and 21-year-old Sumter man on charges that the two men broke into two motor vehicles on Friday that were parked outside homes on Double Eagle Circle near Lexington.
Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said deputies arrested Jazmon Donta Brunson, 20, of 444 Dogwood Drive, Sumter, and Eric Alexander Sumpter, 21, of 10 Meehan Street, Sumter, at 5:10 a.m. on Friday on two counts each of breaking into a motor vehicle and one count each of criminal conspiracy. Brunson and Sumpter were being held on Friday at the Lexington County Detention Center while awaiting bond hearings.
At 4:14 a.m. on Friday, Sgt. Christian Smith and Deputy Terry Snead responded to a call concerning two suspicious men who were walking in the Lexington Hills subdivision, Metts said. A resident saw the two men pull on the doors of motor vehicles that were parked outside homes in the subdivision in an effort to determine whether the vehicles had been left unlocked.
The resident provided a physical description of the two men to Smith and told Smith that the two men drove away in a dark colored Jeep Cherokee sport utility vehicle, Metts said. Snead saw a Jeep Cherokee that resembled the Jeep Cherokee that the two men were riding in and conducted a traffic stop on the Jeep Cherokee at a convenience store at 1897 South Lake Drive. Snead found that Brunson and Sumpter were riding in the Jeep Cherokee.
Deputies arrested Brunson and Sumpter on a charge of breaking into a motor vehicle after officers questioned the two men, Metts said. Deputies searched the Jeep Cherokee and found one laptop computer and several Global Positioning System (GPS) devices inside the vehicle.
Deputies determined that one of the GPS devices had been stolen from a 2002 Chevrolet pickup truck that had been parked outside a home on Double Eagle Circle, Metts said. Deputies determined that the laptop computer had been stolen from a 2003 Ford Mustang sedan that had been parked outside a second home on Double Eagle Circle.
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