The Indianola Police Department has made an arrest in at least three of last week’s half-dozen after-hours burglaries on the U.S. 82 corridor.
Clyde Ringo Stevenson, 59, was arrested on Monday at a residence on Slim Street, IPD Chief Ronald Sampson told The Enterprise-Tocsin.
There is a possibility that Stevenson is connected with more of those break-ins, but Sampson said that there is evidence right now linking him to at least three, including burglaries at Lost Pizza, Alford’s Monograms & Gifts and Sherwin-Williams.
“Right now, we can connect him to three,” Sampson said.
Young Ideas, The Perch Print & Press and the Moetique Boutique were also hit during last week’s crime spree.
During the Sherwin-Williams break-in, Stevenson allegedly stole paint cans from the store. At least one of those cans was likely used to break the door of a nearby boutique in the Lovelace Shopping Center. A can busted in the process, leaving white paint covering the sidewalk outside of the store.
Shoe prints made from the white paint going between Sherwin-Williams and the boutique were apparent on Sunday morning, hours after the crime was committed.
Those prints were later followed to the back of the shopping center where the boutique’s cash register was apparently found.
“He still had paint on his ankles and his feet,” Sampson said of Stevenson when he was apprehended on Monday.
Stevenson is also wanted for a Mississippi Department of Corrections probation violation, and Sampson said that MDOC plans to revoke his probation.
Meanwhile, IPD is still looking for Lezerrick Wilburn in connection with the Young Ideas break-in last Wednesday.
Sampson said that all of the crimes may be connected, but there is no hard evidence linking them right now.
