Crime & Safety

UPDATE: One Burglary Suspect Caught, Another Still on the Run

Update 5:30 pm: One of two men wanted in connection with a burglary in Rolling Glen subdivision Thursday afternoon has been apprehended.

Chief Deputy Lee Weems of the Oconee County Sheriff's Office said Joshua Blaze Burgess, 21, of Wildwood Place in Watkinsville has been arrested and charged with first degree burglary.

"We are still working to identify the second suspect," he wrote in an email to Patch.

Original: The Oconee County Sheriff's Office is looking for two burglary suspects in Bishop.

According to a Nixle alert sent Thursday at 3:09 pm, two white men fled from a house in Rolling Glen and ran into the woods.

Detailed descriptions of the suspects weren't available, but one was reportedly wearing a bandana and the other had a grey hoodie.

Contact the OCSO at 706-769-5665 or call 911 with any information.


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