A $50,000 bond has been set for an Itta Bena man charged with stealing a couple of loads of copper from Indianola Electric Company.
Curtis Sherman 61, Sunflower Road, Apt, D-23, Itta Bena was arrested June 27 and charged with burglary of a commercial building after police extracted photos of Sherman from the company’s surveillance footage.
According to Sgt. Irish Johnson, Indianola Police Department, investigators circulated the photos around town and were told that the image resembled the Itta Bena man. Police then reached out to officer Eddie Cates of the Itta Bena police who positively identified Sherman. Sherman was arrested and made his initial appearance before Judge Kuykendall Murry on Thursday morning.
Johnson said at 5:45 a.m., on June 26, business owner Chris McClain said someone had broken into the facility and stole $1,000 worth of copper and he had a video of it. The video allegedly showed a heavy-set black man in blue jean shorts arriving in what looked to be a tan or white Cadillac.
The man reportedly broke the lock on the door, left the site in the Cadillac and returned in a truck at 12:47 a.m., loaded up the truck and left. He then came back at 5:30 a.m., reloaded and left again, apparently just before McClain arrived at the building.
Police arrested Sherman, and as of Thursday afternoon, Sherman was still in the Sunflower County jail.
