By DAVID MELSON - dmelson@t-g.com
Ten duffel bags containing almost $2,000 worth of clothing were stolen overnight Thursday from a portable classroom at Bedford County Vocational School, J.G. Helton Drive.
Each bag contained 20 pairs of jeans and men’s shirts, 16 pairs of shoes, 10 girls’ shirts, eight packs of men’s briefs and six jackets, Shelbyville police said.
Video shows a suspect inside the classroom from 10:26-10:32 p.m., 11-11:56 p.m. and 12:34-12:47 p.m.
The suspect changed clothes at one point, leaving behind a wet shirt and pants.
Storage sheds behind Shelbyville-Bedford County Senior Citizens Center, J.G. Helton Drive, Harris Head Start, Elm Street, and Bright’s Temple Church of God in Christ, Elm Street, were also entered with nothing reported missing from either.
A knife was used to open the Head Start lock, police said. The knife was found in the parking lot. Video shows a dark truck behind the building.
Hedge clippers from the church were found on the ground nearby.
A CB radio was taken from a truck at Wayne’s Auto Repair, East Highland Street between Sunday, Dec. 12 and Sunday, Dec. 19, police were told.
Other thefts investigated by authorities:
•A woman who told police she’d smoked methamphetamine earlier allegedly broke into a home and car on Apache Place Friday night.
Ashlynn Giselle Nava, 21, Cheyenne Circle, told police people inside the walls of her home were trying to kill her. The owner of the car said Nava, who he doesn’t know, allegedly got into his vehicle and rummaged through the glove box after forcing her way through a bedroom window at his home and taking a cellphone.
She was charged with aggravated burglary and public intoxication and held on $30,500 bond.
•A suspect in the burglary of a vehicle Saturday morning was arrested after he passed out on the porch of a Myers Street home with the victim’s wallet and identification in his jacket, police said.
Christopher Keith Deweese, 56, of King Arthur Court was charged with burglary, theft of property under $1,000 and possession of drug paraphernalia and held on $16,500 bond.
Deweese allegedly tried to enter the victim’s East Depot Street home before breaking into his vehicle and taking several items. Deweese, who had been seen running from the scene, was identified by the victim as the suspect. He also allegedly possessed a broken crack pipe, police said.
•A Ruger LCR .38 special revolver was stolen from a vehicle last week in Tillett’s Trailer Park.
•A man described as white, in his 40s, with a “scruffy beard” ordered $38 worth of food from Serv-N-Go Market, South Cannon Boulevard, and ran away without paying Sunday.Two German Shepherd dogs, Zoe and Jazzy, were stolen from kennels at a Coble Road home late Sunday morning, police said.
A suspicious person in a dark Jeep Cherokee with red writing on the rear window was seen in the area, a Bedford County Sheriff’s Office report said.
