The dispatcher sent deputies to the store and contacted the Wal-Mart manager. Parsons says the manager then moved the employees to a secure location. When deputies arrived they went through the locked front doors and searched the store. There was no gunman present, in the store.
“At 3:45 a.m.,” Sheriff Parsons stated, “The department received an alarm call at Cedar Hill Country Club, below Jonesville. When an officer arrived he found the front window broken, out of, the club. The officer and a club employee then located a male subject setting near the club, in a Ford Explorer.”
Parsons said the man could not explain why he was there. Later he confessed he was waiting for the person who had broken into the country club, to return.
“We believe the Wal-Mart threat was a diversionary tactic to draw officers away from the country club, but thankfully these officers had the foresight to realize something might be up an get to the country club quickly,” said Sheriff Parsons.
Sheriff personnel had suspicious as to who had made the phone call, for the two perpetrators, and is subpoenaing phone records to make a confirmation. “Once we have those phone records more charges will be place in connection to the threat,” he said.
Parson stated that Michael Tony Barnett, 27 and Brandon Lee Barnette, 22, who are cousins, and live in Jonesville, have both been charged with breaking and entering and are being held in the Duffield Regional Jail on $5,000 secured bonds, each. Nothing was found to be missing from the Cedar Hill Country Club.
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