Canton Man Indicted on Sixes Road Burglary Charges

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A Cherokee County grand jury has indicted a Canton resident on charges he allegedly burglarized commercial establishments around the city.

The grand jury on Monday indicted Kevin Coulson Gentry, 23, on five counts of burglary in the second degree, three counts of possession of a knife during the commission of a crime and one count of each of unlawful handling of an explosive device and possession of marijuana less than an ounce.

Investigators with the Cherokee Sheriff’s Office in December 2014 arrested Gentry and initially charged him with burglarizing Marco’s Pizza at 3725 Sixes Road and Bio-Tech Cleaners at 3290 Sixes Road. Soon after the arrest, investigators linked him to burglaries that occurred at Subway at 3775 Sixes Road and BridgeMill Auto Care at 9010 Bells Ferry Road.

Additionally, Gentry was also indicted for allegedly burglarizing Subway at 4047 Marietta Highway, which falls under the Canton Police Department’s jurisdiction.

While executing a search warrant during its investigation, detectives with the sheriff’s office found a small homemade explosive device allegedly in Gentry’s vehicle.

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The device, which, according to the indictment, was a silver canister filled with gun powder and an attached fuse, had to be removed and disabled by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Bomb Squad.

Deputies on Dec. 5, 2014, were dispatched to a burglary call at Marco’s Pizza. Once they arrived onto the scene, deputies ”discovered a rock had been thrown through the front door and the cash drawer was missing from the business,” sheriff’s office spokesperon Lt. Jay Baker previously told Patch.

While at the business, those deputies also discovered the business next door — Bio-Tech Cleaners — also had its “front door shattered by a rock and the cash register was missing,” Baker stated.

Sheriff’s detectives were able to find a finger print at the pizza restaurant, which was subsequently matched to Gentry. A search warrant was obtained for Gentry’s home in the BridgeMill subdivision, and detectives uncovered evidence that allegedly linked him to the crimes, the sheriff’s office said.

After reviewing other commercial burglaries in the area, detectives charged Gentry in connection to the burglaries of Subway at 3775 Sixes Road on Oct. 13, 2024, and BridgeMill Auto Care at 9010 Bells Ferry Road on Nov. 23, 2014, Baker stated. Canton police also linked him to the Marietta Highway burglary.

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Photo: Kevin Gentry, 23, of Canton. Credit: Cherokee Sheriff’s Office