Police Arrest Burglary Suspects

Police arrested two men who they say burglarized a business Friday morning and left a trail of blood from the business to an apartment.

The owner of the Tobacco Station, 1831 E. Mission, more than 100 cartons of cigarettes were taken along with other items.

Police said blood stained the broken glass and basement at the Tobacco Station. Officers followed the trail of blood drops and bloody footprints from the rear of the store, over a fence and through a field to an apartment across the street.

When police knocked on the door of an apartment at 1516 N. Magnolia, Chad T. Lane, 21, let them inside, spokesman Dick Cottam said. Zachery E. Somers, 18, was inside bandaging his right hand, police said.

One of the men then led officers to boxes of stolen merchandise hidden behind a fence at the rear of the apartment building.

Lane, who gave his address as 7325 N. Regal, and Somers, who told police he lives at 1847 E. Marshall, were jailed on charges of second-degree burglary.

, DataTimes