Crime & Safety
Deputies Arrest Man Accused of Breaking into Columbia Home, Eating Food
The 26-year-old man was arrested on Decker Boulevard Wednesday.

A man accused of rummaging through a home in the St. Andrews area on Christmas Day was arrested Wednesday.
James Walter Brown III, 26, is charged with burglary, petit larceny and malicious injury to real property.
Deputies say he broke into a home on Haymarket Road around 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 25, ate food from the kitchen cabinets and regrigerator, turned on a shower in the home and turned on TVs throughout the house.
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Two residents who were home while Brown was there hid, according to the sheriff's department. Brown ran out of the back door when a third resident returned home.
Deputies arrested Brown just after midnight Wednesday on Decker Boulevard. He is being held at the Alvin S. Glenn Detetion Center on a surety bond of $12,000.
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