April 2, 2024 - Law enforcement agencies served a search warrant on a residence located in the 100 block of Fall Street in Center on April 2, 2024, sometime before 2pm.
Officers served the warrant and detained two men and a woman from the residence, apparently without incident. While officers searched the house, and surrounding area, the three people from the house remained seated and handcuffed outside.
Evidence bags were taken from within the residence and other tools and various items were gathered from a shed outside the residence by officers.
Officers transported the three people from the scene around 3pm and as of this report have not yet been identified to the public.
The Center Police Department issued a press release addressing some details involving recent burglaries and the warrant service of April 2, amongst others.
According to the press release, the Center Police Department Criminal Investigation Division (CID) has been investigating the influx of burglaries that started around January of this year (2024).
Multiple businesses, churches, homes, and storage buildings have been burglarized in the northern part of the city.
In the later part of March, the Center Police Department implemented a task force to put more officers and detectives on patrol during the time the burglaries were happening.
The press release continues in reference to three dates involving burglary investigation, where officers with the Center Police Department Patrol Division conducted a traffic stop on March 31 that resulted in some stolen property being recovered. Members of the CID conducted interviews and gathered probable cause on April 1, to obtain a search warrant for a piece of property within the city of Center.
When officers and detectives arrived at that location, the press release indicates, they recovered multiple items that had been reported stolen from multiple reported burglaries.
Members of the CID conducted more interviews and obtained probable cause for a search warrant on April 2, at another location within the city of Center.
The second search warrant was served, and stolen property, narcotics, and drug paraphernalia were recovered.
With the information obtained during this investigation the Center Police Department was able to recover stolen property from seven of the reported burglaries and have made four arrests.
According to the press release, the Center Police Department thanks the Shelby County District Attorney, Shelby County Sheriff's Office, and Texas Department of Public Safety for all their assistance in this investigation.
This is still an ongoing investigation, and further details will be released when available.
An option available to the public to help protect their property is the ReportIt system, which is promoted to be a secure service and only accessible by the person who sets up the account. Law enforcement agencies do not have access to your account, only you do. If you have items stolen, you can log into your account select the items which were stolen and then generate a report to give to law enforcement. The system is also valuable in the event of any kind of loss which has to be filed with an insurance company such as fire.
ReportIt can be accessed by cliking here
