Geauga Sheriff Deputies Capture Two Burglars from Orwell
Two alleged burglars, Joshua Pokorny, 29, and Megan Case, 29, both of Orwell, were taken into custody by Geauga County Sheriff’s Office deputies the morning of June 18 after a search that ended in the woods on Stone Road in Newbury Township.
Two alleged burglars, Joshua Pokorny, 29, and Megan Case, 29, both of Orwell, were taken into custody by Geauga County Sheriff’s Office deputies the morning of June 18 after a search that ended in the woods on Stone Road in Newbury Township.
The June 19 sheriff’s blotter report included the following information:
At about 6:15 a.m. Tuesday, the department learned Ashtabula County Sheriff’s Office deputies had been pursuing a white Nissa Altima with Nevada plates an hour earlier and the vehicle’s GPS was traced to a park in Burton Village.
A warrant out of Trumbull County had been entered for one of the two suspects in the vehicle in connection with a burglary in Wayne Township in Ashtabula County.
Geauga County Sheriff’s Lt. Gary Gribbons said on June 19 the ASO deputies called off the chase and issued a BOLO (be on the look out) for the vehicle at 6:22 p.m. and requested it be stopped and the suspects held.
Case’s mother had a GPS device attached to the vehicle by a private detective and she was able track it on her phone and tell deputies the location of the Altima as it travelled, according to the blotter.
The suspects drove west from Burton on state Route 87 to Stone Road.
At 6:27 a.m., the GCSO received a call that two people ran through a backyard at 14690 Hillview Drive heading north. The suspects’ descriptions were a young male with short hair wearing a white T-shirt and a white female with a pony tail. The vehicle was stuck in a ditch nearby.
Case’s mother, who lives in Windsor Township, said the pair was hoping to hide from Ashtabula law enforcement in Geauga and they stole guns and antiques from Case’s grandmother. Case allegedly carries a knife and is violent.
The pair was spotted at a Stone Road home at about 7 a.m. Geauga County sheriff’s deputies used a drone to search for the couple.
At 7:46 a.m., one of the searchers found fresh footprints in the bottom of a ravine near 14755 Stone Road and deputies ordered the pair to come out of the woods.
They complied just before 8 a.m. and were taken into custody while the Ashtabula County Sheriff’s Office was notified.
The Altima was towed by Bill’s Body and Paint Shop in Newbury.
Gribbons said Geauga deputies acted to assist another agency and did not arrest or charge Pokorny and Case.
According to the Ashtabula Star Beacon, Ashtabula County deputies were called to the scene of a burglary in progress at 4:45 a.m. Tuesday and saw Pokorny and Case leaving the property with stolen items, several of which, including a cell phone, were dropped as they ran away.
Deputies followed the Altima toward Trumbull County at speeds occasionally in excess of 100 mph.
The Star Beacon reported Pokorny and Case are accused of stealing more than 100 guns from the Wayne Township home.
