A Lebanon Missouri man was arrested in Mammoth Spring after attempting to steal a vehicle from a bank parking lot.
According to an affidavit filed in Fulton County March 4, on March 1, Mammoth Spring Patrolman John Barnett received a call from dispatch stating there was a possible vehicle theft in progress at FNBC.
Mammoth Spring Police Officers along with two agents from the 16th Judicial Drug Task Force responded and located 40-year-old Brandon Jemes sitting on the sidewalk near Spring River Commons.
Initally Jemes complied with officer’s commands but while being detained began to resist and was taken into custody and transported to the Fulton County Detention Center.
Chief Jamie Turnbough and Officer Barnett then spoke with witnesses including employees of the bank and two individuals who had intervened when they saw Jemes climb into the driver’s seat of a woman’s vehicle while she was in the bank.
The two men pulled Jemes from the vehicle at which time he fled from the bank’s property across the street.
When speaking to the victim, Eva Roberts, she told authorities that Jemes had approached her from outside the bank and asked to buy her vehicle. She said it was not for sale and then entered the bank to conduct her business.
She said the then watched Jemes open her driver’s side door and sit in the driver’s seat. It was at this time the two men removed Jemes from the vehicle.
As a result, Jemes has been charged with breaking or entering, a class D felony; resisting arrest, a class A misdemeanor and disorderly conduct, a class C misdemeanor. Bond for Jemes was set at $5,000.
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