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Bogue Chitto home burglarized
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| By: ADAM NORTHAM, DAILY LEADER Staff Writer |
April 02, 2009 |
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A Wednesday burglary in the Arlington community has left a young Lincoln County husband and wife with no heritage, no entertainment and little peace of mind.
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Dustin Sasser, 30, of 1098 Bogue Chitto Road Southwest, said he arrived home around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday to find his home broken into and approximately $12,000 worth of items stolen, including antique family possessions, almost all his electronic equipment and even the sheets off his bed.
Sasser said he saw his wife, 26-year-old Ashley Sasser, off to work Wednesday morning before leaving to take his dogs to the vet and run errands around 8:30 a.m. By the time he returned around 2:30 p.m., the damage had been done.
"I wish I'd have been at home," he said. "They'd have wished I wasn't."
Sasser said the burglars kicked the front door in to enter his home and kicked the back door out to leave. In between, the burglars seemed to have taken everything they could get their hands on, he said, most importantly a safe that contained the Sassers' marriage license, birth certificates, Social Security cards, a gold and silver coin collection and Ashley Sasser's grandmother's antique diamond engagement ring.
"They must have thought the safe was full of money," Sasser said. "It wasn't cash money, but to us it was worth a fortune."
The burglars didn't stop there. Also stolen from the Sasser home were a pair of digital televisions, three gaming consoles and most of their games, a digital camera, two large CD cases full of CDs, a nickel-plated Taurus 9mm pistol and an old computer and printer. The burglars also ransacked the bedroom and then grabbed six fishing poles by the backdoor as they exited the home.
"The computer was 10 years old - it was about worthless except it had all our pictures on it," Sasser said.
Lincoln County Sheriff Steve Rushing is also keeping an eye out for Sasser's stolen items.
"My investigator has already done a follow-up, and we'll take any leads that come in," he said. "We'll be checking the pawn shops and trying to catch anyone who was out and about that shouldn't be in the neighborhood."
Rushing said Sasser's burglary is at least the third reported in a month, and by far the biggest. The burglary is uncommon for the Arlington neighborhood, he said, which has not seen a burglary in several months.
Rushing said anyone with information pertaining to the burglary should call the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department at (601) 833-5231, or Crime Stoppers at (601) 823-0150.
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