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A Thomasville man who allegedly went on a crime spree on New Year Day, including breaking and entering into occupied houses, setting a car on fire and a chase with law enforcement, is facing additional charges in Davidson County related to the incidents.
Geoffrey Shane Brisson, 34, of 7277 Reddy Foxx Lane, Thomasville, was given additional charges of three counts of felony possession of a firearm by a felon, three counts of felony breaking and entering of a motor vehicle, and felony larceny of a firearm. He was given a $150,000 secured bond and a court date of Jan. 25.
According to information provided by the arrest report, Brisson was previously convicted of breaking and entering in Guilford County in 2005.
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Tennessee’s updated vaccine distribution plan adds corrections officers and jailers to its first priority phase, while tens of thousands of people incarcerated in the state’s prisons and jails, remain in the last phase of distribution before the vaccine becomes widely available to the general public.
Calls for the mass release of vulnerable people from the state’s prisons have been rejected, if not ignored. Gov. Bill Lee has not used his authority to commute sentences in order to reduce the prison population during the pandemic.
The Dispatch
Authorities in Davidson and Randolph Counties are looking for a man they say committed an assault Wednesday afternoon.
Deputies with the Davidson County Sheriff s Office responded to an assault call at 4:50 p.m. on Cabin Creek Road near Denton. The suspect, Dustin Diehl, drove away from the scene and was pursued by deputies into Randolph County, according to a Facebook post from the Davidson County Sheriff s Office.
Deputies said Diehl crashed his vehicle near Gopher Woods Road / Old Highway 49, where he got out of the vehicle and fled on foot into the woods nearby.
At 8 a.m. on Thursday, a resident on Moore Rd. called 911 saying they saw Diehl running from a barn, according to a press release from the Randolph County Sheriff s Office. Deputies arrived at 8:06 a.m. and saw Diehl. They began chasing him on foot before losing him in the woods, deputies said.