Published: October 18, 2021


AN INDIVIDUAL WANTED IN A SERIES OF THEFTS IN GILES COUNTY LAST WEEK WAS ARRESTED THIS MORNING IN CLARK COUNTY INDIANA. ACCORDING TO A PRESS RELEASE ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, AN OFFICER WITH THE MINOR HILL POLICE DEPARTMENT ATTEMPTED TO STOP A VEHICLE ON HIGHWAY 11 WHERE THE SUBJECT REFUSED TO STOP AND FLED DOWN MCREE LANE. TWO MALES THEN FLED FROM THE TRUCK ON FOOT AND THE PASSENGER, A JUVENILE WAS APPREHENDED. THE TRUCK CAME BACK AS STOLEN OUT OF CULLMAN ALABAMA AND A SEARCH OF THE TRUCK YIELDED STOLEN PROPERTY, GUNS AND NARCOTICS. THE DRIVER OF THE VEHICLE, DAVID DREW WILLIAMS OF JONES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, LEFT THE AREA AFTER ALLEGEDLY STEALING ANOTHER VEHICLE ON MCREE LANE THURSDAY MORNING AND BURGLARIZED SEVERAL VEHICLES. WILLIAMS IS CURRENTLY AWAITING EXTRADITION TO GILES COUNTY.