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 web posted October 31, 2007  JOHNSTON – Johnston
Police Chief Chris
Aston said one of the men responsible for the early morning burglary of
the Johnston IGA Food Store on Lee Street on October 17 that led to an
all night and all day manhunt is now in custody. Maurice Anthony Odom,
32, of Texas Lane, Williston SC, was taken into custody Tuesday morning
and is currently being held on a total of $200,000 bonds at the
Edgefield County Detention Center. “He won’t be gong anywhere anytime
soon, “Aston said.Chief Aston said that Mr. Odom had been released on bond from a similar burglary in another county just a few weeks prior to the one charged in Johnston. In the Johnston case two men threw two cement blocks through the glass door of the IGA Food Store and took an estimated $2,600 in cigarettes. As Johnston Police were investigating the call, an Edgefield County Sheriff’s deputy discovered an attempted burglary at Billy’s Superstore less than a half mile away. The two men are then believed to have fled towards Aiken on Highway 191 in a 1994 white Cadillac. Edgefield and Saluda County Deputies and Edgefield and Johnston Police Officers arrived on the scene in an attempt to block the two men’s escape. Shortly before 2 am a Saluda County Deputy spotted the car pulled off into the woods on a side road. When the deputy shinned a spotlight on the car the two men, who were in the process of changing clothes, fled on foot into the woods. Evidence collected in the case led investigators to Odom. A second suspect has been identified but his name has not been officially released. Chief Aston said Odom was being held on three separate bonds; $100,000 for the burglary in the second degree, $50,000 for the malicious injury to personal property, and $50,000 for the grand larceny. The white Cadillac used in the commission of the crime is also being seized Chief Aston said. ©
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