Arrests Made in Cases of Robbery, Arson
By: BigCountryHomePage.com Staff
Updated: August 16, 2012
You may recall a fire at the motel in downtown Abilene in February that damaged several rooms, causing some families to lose everything.
Surveillance video was later released that shows a woman coming out of the first floor room where the fire started.
The same woman then turned, opened the door and watched the smoke come out of the room.
A man then goes to the room and both of them leave.
22-year-old Demi Christine French is charged with arson in connection with the fire.
She was arrested Tuesday when police responded to a disturbance call and found her at the location.
This is not French's first arrest for arson.
Mugshot: Demi Christine French
Two men suspected in an armed robbery early Thursday morning may also be behind several other crimes.
Police stopped Ryan Millikin and Austin Hufford after a convenience store clerk alerted them, saying he'd just been robbed by a man wearing a skii mask.
The clerk was able to give them a description of the men's car.
During inspection of the vehicle, officers found the men had property stolen during other thefts that had occured overnight.
Police are now working to identify other possible victims of these two men.
Mugshot: Ryan Millikin
Mugshot: Austin Hufford
Abilene police captured another suspect involved in a home burglary that happened back in April.
Candace Camille Bailey was arrested and is in jail on a $20,000 bond.
Bailey is one of five suspects connected to the burglary that happend in the 1700 block of Westmoreland.
According to court records, Bailey said she did not participate in the crime but she was in the get-away car at the time and ran from police.
She also hid some of the items from the burglary in her home.
Summer Brewer and Michael Xavier Gonzalez were the first ones arrested shortly after the crime.
The car they were in got a flat and also sprang a leak. Police were able to follow the trial of the fluid to where the suspects were at.
A few days later, police made two more arrests in the case; Alexx R. Cooper and Lamar D. Sonnier who all admitted to taking part in the burglary
Most of the items from the burglary were recovered.
Mugshot: Candace Camille Bailey
Surveillance video was later released that shows a woman coming out of the first floor room where the fire started.
The same woman then turned, opened the door and watched the smoke come out of the room.
A man then goes to the room and both of them leave.
22-year-old Demi Christine French is charged with arson in connection with the fire.
She was arrested Tuesday when police responded to a disturbance call and found her at the location.
This is not French's first arrest for arson.
Mugshot: Demi Christine French
Two men suspected in an armed robbery early Thursday morning may also be behind several other crimes.
Police stopped Ryan Millikin and Austin Hufford after a convenience store clerk alerted them, saying he'd just been robbed by a man wearing a skii mask.
The clerk was able to give them a description of the men's car.
During inspection of the vehicle, officers found the men had property stolen during other thefts that had occured overnight.
Police are now working to identify other possible victims of these two men.
Mugshot: Ryan Millikin
Mugshot: Austin Hufford
Abilene police captured another suspect involved in a home burglary that happened back in April.
Candace Camille Bailey was arrested and is in jail on a $20,000 bond.
Bailey is one of five suspects connected to the burglary that happend in the 1700 block of Westmoreland.
According to court records, Bailey said she did not participate in the crime but she was in the get-away car at the time and ran from police.
She also hid some of the items from the burglary in her home.
Summer Brewer and Michael Xavier Gonzalez were the first ones arrested shortly after the crime.
The car they were in got a flat and also sprang a leak. Police were able to follow the trial of the fluid to where the suspects were at.
A few days later, police made two more arrests in the case; Alexx R. Cooper and Lamar D. Sonnier who all admitted to taking part in the burglary
Most of the items from the burglary were recovered.
Mugshot: Candace Camille Bailey
