Crime & Safety
Watkinsville Police Charge Man with Burglary and Theft Following Traffic Stop
The suspect was found driving a stolen pickup truck after allegedly having taken the vehicle's keys from inside of a Cedar Drive residence earlier in the day, police say. An arrest isn't a conviction.
Police say a 30-year-old man entered a Watkinsville home Wednesday, took keys to a truck and some credit cards, and drove off in the vehicle.
Responding to reports of a possible impaired driver, officers pulled the suspect over on New High Shoals Road near Bishop's Vineyard subdivision around 11:15 a.m., Police Chief Lee O'Dillon explained.
The man was unable to answer questions about the truck's owner, he said, and further investigation led police to a duplex on Cedar Drive where it was discovered some items had been taken from the residence.
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Officers charged Aaron Tyler Poss with burglary in the first degree and theft by receiving stolen property, but no traffic-related offenses and police said he wasn't impaired.
"We knew he went in [the duplex] and that he wasn't supposed to be there," O'Dillon said.
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Poss is linked to an address in Colbert, but officers believe he may have been staying at a residence near the one that was burglarized, O'Dillon said.
The investigation is still ongoing and additional details weren't available.
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