Staff Writer

A Union man is accused of being involved in the beating and robbery of a Pizza Hut delivery driver Wednesday.

Zedrick Dean Harris, 21, of 1207 Arthur Boulevard was charged Friday by the Union Public Safety Department with strong armed robbery. He has been released from the Union County Jail on $5,000 personal recognizance bond.

Harris' arrest warrant, signed by Investigator Brian Bailey, said he took $36 from Bruce Edward Jett III using force and intimidation. Jett told officers he thought at least four people attacked him as he walked back to his vehicle after making a delivery at Lakeview Garden Apartments. Jett said he was choked and beaten.

Chief Sam White said more arrests are anticipated in the case.

“Brian is still working on it; we are looking for more arrests because more people were involved,” he said.

White declined to comment on the information that led to Harris' arrest since the investigation is ongoing. Several people in an apartment were questioned shortly after the incident. White said Harris was not among them.

Woman accused of thefts

A Buffalo woman who was working as a care-giver for an Alzheimer's patient is accused of stealing antiques from the woman's home.

Veronica Southerland Garland, 35, of 211 Drug Store St., was charged Friday by the public safety department with grand larceny. Her warrant, signed by Bailey, said she took two antique boxes worth $2,500 from a home on 208 Park Drive.

White said the boxes were sold to someone in Whitmire, eventually ended up in Tennessee, and have been returned to the owner. He said Ms. Garland was one of several care-givers for the victim.

Ms. Garland has been released from the Union County Jail. The amount of her bond was not available this morning.

Apartment shot

Saturday, a woman on 1111 Lakeside Drive reported to Officer Dell Mitchell that someone had shot into her apartment. She said she found a bullet hole and fragments in her apartment window. While Mitchell was taking the report, the woman's friend told him that she had heard that a man that had come to the complex to swap a scooter had been shot at.

Mitchell talked to this man by phone and he said a man wearing a black hoodie and blue jeans told him he was going to take his money. The victim resisted and the man in the hoodie fired a gun at him twice.

An investigation is continuing.

Break-in

Someone has broken into Monarch Elementary School again.

Deputies were called Sunday morning after the burglar alarm was activated. They found two classroom windows had been broken on the lower level of the school. A small pink chair had been knocked over just inside one of the windows where someone entered the school. Deputies searched the building and found a back door on the lower level was open. They found a key that fit the office lying on the floor of the hallway by the teachers' lounge. The office door also was open. A desk drawer in the office was opened but nothing was thought to be missing at the time of the report.

A neighbor told deputies he saw a person with a small build sitting in a swing on the school's front playground. A pair of men's blue jeans were left in the swing.

Damage was estimated at $100.

Someone broke into the school Monday night and took $60 that had been raised for the Relay for Life and an empty prescription bottle.

Thefts

On 194 Alexander Drive, a man told Sgt. Jimmy Johnson Saturday that someone took a radiator, three 10-foot pieces of galvanized pipe and a 60-gallon propane tank. The radiator was taken from a 1950s Jeep and the other items were stolen from the yard. These are worth $150.

On 202 Lowery St., a man told Cpl. Dean Gibson Saturday that someone took his 11-month-old pit bull, which is worth $100. The dog is white with green eyes and a blue collar.