ROWAN COUNTY, N.C. — A burglary suspect in Rowan County, who fled into the woods after allegedly breaking into a home on Crawford Road on Tuesday night, was arrested after a crash, the sheriff said.
At 8:23 p.m., deputies responded to a residential breaking and entering at 420 Crawford Road. The homeowner reported seeing the suspect exiting his house.
The suspect was described as a man, possibly in his 30s, with scruffy facial hair, wearing an orange shirt and blue jeans.
He ran into the woods towards Long Ferry Road.
The homeowner told deputies that he fired a single shot at the suspect as he was fleeing.
At about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday, the Miller Ferry Fire Department responded to a single-vehicle wreck on Long Ferry Road near Dukeville Drive, the sheriff said.
A Ford Taurus ran off the road and struck a guy wire.
The only person in the car matched the description of the alleged burglar, so firefighters called telecommunications.
Deputies were then called to the crash scene.
Steven Eugene Bracken II, who was driving the Taurus, later confessed to deputies that he was at the scene of the burglary and that he had been confronted by the homeowner.
Some of the items that were stolen from the home were located inside the vehicle that Bracken was driving.
He was not injured from gunfire.
Bracken was charged with misdemeanor breaking and entering and felony larceny after breaking and entering.
He was put in the Rowan County Detention Center with a $50,000 secured bond.
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