Intruder: Victim just wanted damage fixed
A Fannin County woman woke Sunday morning, May 25, to find an intruder asleep inside the home she shares with her husband in the eastern part of Fannin County.
According to a report filed by Fannin County Deputy Sheriff Corporal Matthew Peardon, the woman called the 911 dispatch center at 7:31 a.m. to say she did not know the male and the back door windowpane was broken. She said her husband was talking with the young male suspect.
Within minutes, Peardon, Sergeant John Bramlett and Deputy Kaylee Robertson arrived on the scene.
Peardon met the caller and then went into the kitchen area where the husband and intruder were talking. Peardon wrote the intruder seemed “very polite.”
The victim’s statement said she woke up and when she entered the room where she kept her sewing she noticed two large black sneakers on the floor. She turned and saw a body covered with a mattress pad on a spare bed. The head and feet were moving. She then woke her husband and called 911.
“I confronted the young man who was now standing up to leave. He was very polite and waited for the sheriff’s department to arrive,” the victim wrote.
The intruder stated a friend had picked him up at his residence in Pickens County to travel to a party at a rental cabin in Fannin County. On the way, they stopped at a graduation party in Gilmer County. The intruder admitted to drinking alcohol, but that was the only thing he consumed. He did not remember breaking the windowpane, or how he got into the victims’ residence.
The intruder could remember his own cell phone number but no others, Peardon’s report stated. He did remember the truck his friend drove when he picked him up, and a description of the rental cabin in Fannin County.
Bramlett then rode around the nearby neighborhood and found the cabin.
The victim said she did not want to press charges, she just wanted the intruder to pay for the windowpane damage, to which he agreed.
Peardon took the intruder to the rental cabin where he was released.
(Editor’s note: Since no charges were filed, no names or other identifications of either the victims or the suspect were used for this story taken from Corporal Peardon’s report).