Two Gilbert Men Arrested for Burglary

Lexington County Sheriff’s Department deputies on Tuesday arrested two men on charges alleging that the pair broke into a vacant mobile home on Augusta Highway near Gilbert and stole a window air-conditioning unit.

Lexington County Sheriff James Metts said deputies arrested Arromus Jamario Abney, 21, and Johnny Lavon Bowers, Jr., 19, both of 328 Summers Place Drive, in Gilbert.

Abney was arrested on charges of second-degree burglary, pointing and presenting a firearm, and criminal conspiracy. Bowers was arrested on a charge of second-degree burglary.

Abney was being held Wednesday at the Lexington County Detention Center on $50,000 bail, Metts said, while Bowers was being held on $10,000 bail.

Marlon Hernandez, who owns the vacant mobile home, telephoned the sheriff’s department at about 11:16 a.m. on Tuesday and reported that two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun, were in the process of breaking into the home at 3810 Augusta Highway, Metts said. Hernandez lives in an adjacent mobile home.

Capt. John "J.J." Jones caught Abney at the intersection of Summers Place Drive and Redhaven Road, about 200 yards from the vacant mobile home. Deputies later arrested Bowers at his home, Metts said.

LCSD Sgt. Sam Gunter interviewed Hernandez and several additional witnesses who identified Abney and Bowers as the two men who allegedly broke into the mobile home, Metts said. Hernandez told deputies that he saw Abney and Bowers walking out of the vacant mobile home carrying a window air-conditioning unit, Metts said.

Hernandez told deputies that he later confronted Abney, who allegedly removed a handgun from his pants and pointed it at Hernandez "in a threatening manner," Metts said.

Deputies were able to recover the A/C unit that Abney and Bowers allegedly stole from the mobile home, Metts added.