A witness is credited with leading Gilchrist County deputies to three suspects who have been charged in one burglary and may have ties to several more in the rural county.
Sheriff�s Lt. Teri Gentry said the witness called deputies at 3:53 p.m. Wednesday after seeing three males leaving a rural home and following them until deputies arrived.
Deputies Tom Tucker and Tracy Taylor reportedly received confessions while interviewing the trio. The deputies reported recovering a gun and some cash taken from the home where they had been seen by the witness, as well as other apparently stolen items believed to have been taken in other break-ins, Gentry said.
�We are continuing to investigate because we think some of the items came from other burglaries,� Gentry said.
Those arrested and charged with armed burglary and possession of burglary tools were identified as county residents Richard Sanders, 19, and William J. Hobby, 18.
A third person suspected of being the look-out and get-away driver was also arrested, Gentry said. Kevin Murphy, 21, was arrested and charged with being a principal to an armed burglary.