Three men were arrested Thursday after they allegedly tried to break in to a house near Sheridan Road.
Tarkeice Meadows, 18, Austin Martin, 18, and Brayden Williams, 20, were taken into custody when police searched the area following a report that a burglary was in progress at a house in the 6400 block of Hosman Drive.
According to a probable cause affidavit from Pine Bluff Police Department Detective Mike Sweeney, the owner of the home called police after the lights went out in her residence and she saw a male outside.
The woman said she ran to the kitchen and saw three men through a window, with one of them coming out of her storage room, and when they saw her, they ran.
Sweeney reported that the storage room door was open and the main breaker had been turned off. A window screen on the side of the house had been tampered with, and a shoe print was found under the window.
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After police located the three suspects, police brought the woman to the scene, where she positively identified two of them. She said she was “pretty sure” about the third one. The shoe print that police found matched the shoes of that third person.
Sweeney said in the affidavit that when the men were interviewed, they each said they had been at the house. One said he had turned the door handle to see if the door was locked, then pushed on the door when he heard the woman scream and ran.
Pine Bluff District Judge John Kearney set a $10,000 bond Friday for Meadows, Martin and Williams after ruling prosecutors have probable cause to charge them with criminal attempt burglary and breaking or entering.