Two people were arrested after a homeowner reported to the Bartholomew County Sheriff Department that someone tried to enter a home in the 6500 block of South County Road 550W.
The report was made at 1:05 a.m. Sunday, deputies said. Homeowners told Deputy Joseph Pugh that someone had tried to enter the home and that light-colored vehicle had been parked in their neighbor’s driveway.
While speaking with the homeowners, a neighbor arrived and said that he had seen a suspicious vehicle backed into his driveway, deputies said.
The neighbor said he tried to speak with the driver who left traveling northbound. A relative of another neighbor advised that he had the suspicious vehicle blocked-in in the 8000 block of West County Road 450S, deputies said.
Deputies went to that location and found a silver Ford Fusion, driven by Rockford Mobley, 37, Morgantown, who exited the vehicle and was wearing clothing described in the original report.
It was then discovered that a basement window, of one of the neighboring residences, had been broken and entry made into the home, deputies said. Several items of jewelry were taken. Mobley told deputies that his girlfriend, Niki Linville, who he had recently bonded out of the Morgan County Jail, asked him to stop in this location. A female, identified as Linville, 26, Columbus, was located in the backyard of one of the residences.
Mobley was arrested and taken to the Bartholomew County Jail on a preliminary charge of residential entry, deputies said. He was being held in the jail in lieu of $7,500 bond, jail officials said.
Linville was arrested on preliminary charges of burglary, criminal mischief and residential entry and was being held in jail in lieu of $15,000 bond.
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