Another day, another robbery victim holding suspect at bay, this time in Center Point
Published 12:51 pm Thursday, December 18, 2014
For the second time this week, a victim of a home robbery has cornered a suspect and held him until lawmen arrived.
The latest incident happened in the 20 block of Dogwood Lane, about two blocks north of the Jefferson County Satellite Courthouse. Sheriff’s deputies responded just before noon Wednesday to a call about a burglary in progress, and arrived to find the victim standing over a male suspect.
The victim told deputies he had been sleeping inside the house with an infant child, when he woke up to see a black male running away with a television. The suspect dropped the TV and attempted to flee, but the victim gave chase, fought with the suspect and subdued him.
Unlike Sunday’s incident near Corner High School where a husband and wife held suspects at gunpoint whom they believed robbed their home days earlier, no guns were involved in the Center Point incident.
Deontre Johnson, 21, of Birmingham was arrested on charges of second-degree burglary and second-degree theft of property.
The victim said that two other suspects were also involved, but got away. Not long after that, a caller told the Sheriff’s Office that a suspicious man was walking around the Stratford Square Apartments, carrying a television. Deputies found the man hiding behind a retaining wall, but the suspect got away. A brief chase led lawmen to find the men hiding in the restroom of a laundromat in the 2400 block of Center Point Parkway, where they were captured and arrested without incident.
Carlos Mines, 20, and Roderick Mitchell, 18, both of Birmingham, were charged with third-degree burglary and second-degree theft of property. They are held in the county jail in lieu of $10,000 bond.