In early December our house was broken into and we had goods and money stolen. The Washington County, Va., Sheriff’s Department responded quickly to our call. The department had already answered many calls for cases like ours. The deputy who came was efficient in checking for gained entry, fingerprints, listing what we could determine was missing and photographing the mess. He received a call while here of a similar problem in another area of the county. He advised that we would most likely find other things missing, which we did, and for us to let him or the department know.
We understand one suspect still had some of our belongings on him when he was taken into custody the same day of the break-in.
The expert work of the deputies and detectives resulted in arrests and most of our stolen items being recovered. We were amazed to see how much time and paperwork goes into returning stolen goods. It was done efficiently and to the very best of their ability.
Many of the victims will not get everything back and perhaps some will get nothing. But the department worked diligently and did not let up until they had the suspects in custody. Many times deputies have no information to rely on expect what neighbors can tell them. That information needs to be as accurate as possible. If no one has concrete data, then it is difficult to find a suspect. Including this break-in, we have had our home broken into and been stolen from six times over the past 10 years. This is the second arrest.
No one could give any information on the other four incidents. The deputies cannot be everywhere and some offenses go unsolved. We understand. We had no reason to complain about the unsolved cases.
Some members of the Burson Corner Neighborhood Watch were notified by us of this break-in. They called others about what was happening.
A call placed to someone who had a break-in just a few days before us tied our case to the same suspects. The sheriff’s department was already working on this connection.
Thank you to the Washington County Sheriff’s Department and those who worked with us: detectives Mike Martin and Byron Ashbrook, deputies Lucas Shelly, Capt. Jack Davidson, Maj. Blake Andis and Sheriff Fred Newman.
A special thank you to the entire department for a job well done.
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