On Thursday, April 29, numerous criminal charges were filed against 29-year-old John Robert Scott, of Clinton, stemming from ongoing criminal investigations into two separate shooting incidents that occurred on Friday, April 23, in the southeast portion of Henry County.
Charges filed by the Henry County Prosecuting Attorney’s office include counts of first-degree assault, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful possession of a firearm, as well as single counts of first-degree robbery and first-degree burglary. Scott is currently being held at the Henry County Detention Center with no bond.
Authorities also say 32-year-old Kevin Lee Thornburg is still wanted on an active felony warrant for a parole violation (original charge of second-degree burglary), which was issued on January 8, 2021; as well as other municipal warrants. He also is still being considered a person of interest and needed for questioning regarding his knowledge into the April 23, 2021, incide
A 29-year-old Clinton man was arrested after a stolen vehicle pursuit in Henry County on Wednesday, April 28.
According to the Henry County Sheriff’s Department, at about 10 a.m., a deputy attempted to stop a stolen vehicle in the 600 block of SE 400 Road that had been taken during the early morning hours from a business on South Highway 7. The vehicle failed to yield to emergency lights and siren and fled eastbound on SE 400. The stolen vehicle traveled north on Route U to Highway 7 and then west to SE 571 Road. At the dead end of SE 571, the vehicle traveled through private fields and turned south onto SE 701, where Sheriff Kent Oberkrom began pursuing the vehicle. The vehicle turned west onto SE 400 and then north onto SE 611.