Deputies: Woman caught red-handed with truck full of stolen goods
LEXINGTON, Tenn. — Tires, chainsaws, practically the kitchen sink, all stuffed into a truck used in what deputies believe was a Monday morning burglary spree. “She takes off and gets into the truck, backs out and leaves and she says ‘I’ll be back in a minute,'” Capt. Tracey Grisham said. “When she pulls out and leaves, he notices two of his truck doors open, and stuff is missing.” Grisham, of the Henderson County Sheriff’s Department, says one of his deputies spotted the truck just down the road four minutes after leaving the house. Valerie Jones was spotted coming out of a nearby house. The deputy said she had $60 in her hand and told him she’d done nothing wrong. “He deserves a lot of kudos,” Grisham said. “A lot of officers would have come back, typed a report, and instead he didn’t and tried to find it, and in this case it worked.” Grisham says after a quick investigation of the tightly packed truck, they found items taken from the first house. And it doesn’t stop there. Grisham says after they took Jones to jail they got another call, this time from her ex-boyfriend, who said things were missing from his house, including $60 in cash. Investigators say Jones has been charged with one count of aggravated burglary, two counts of burglary and two counts of theft. She currently is being held in Henderson County Jail in lieu of a $25,000 bond.
