Today's Feature

Four Apprehended by Police.

Police Chief Dennis Veach reported a very busy day for the Carthage Police on Tuesday after the arrests of four suspects in two separate cases.

In the morning around 9 a.m. the Police Department received a phone call from a Springfield trucking company reporting the presence of a stolen truck cab in Carthage. The truck was reported to be in the region of HH Highway and Hazel, and was located by a global positioning device owned by the trucking company. Officers proceeded to the site and located the truck in the parking lot of Peach Tree Dental office, according to Veach.

Veach says responding officers found a male and female inside the truck and attempted to remove them from the vehicle. A struggle ensued but the officers were successful in obtaining the keys to the truck and two impact clubs from the suspects. The suspects were heard to make reference to the possession of a firearm at which point Veach says the responding police officers set up a perimeter around the barricaded suspects.

After approximately an hour the suspects were apprehended and taken to custody.

Around the time of resolution of this conflict the Police Department received another phone call reporting a robbery at UMB bank. Veach says that some of the officers not directly involved in the booking of the truck theft suspects were sent to the scene of the bank robbery. At UMB on Fairview and Garrison officers obtained information about the bank robbery suspects and the vehicle from witnesses.

Approximately 45 minutes after the information was distributed among law enforcement a pickup truck matching the description was reported on Highway 37. The vehicle was seen by a Jasper County Deputy and Highway Patrol officer. These officers stopped the vehicle and took to custody a Thomas Joel Maggard, 52 and Arleen Frances Wolfe, 46. The two are being held in Carthage on warrants from the State of California charging them with bank robbery and on pending Carthage charges. Money believed to be taken from the bank as well as other evidence were recovered from the vehicle.

Stench Report:
Tuesday,
2/7/06

No Stench Reported

‘Course the couple robbin’ the bank didn’t fare much better bein’ only fifteen or twenty miles way when they got caught up with. Looks like bein’ Bonnie and Clyde ain’t what it used ta be.

I suppose the main lesson is that the local law enforcement is on the job, doin’ their best to protect and serve.

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

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