ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, April 12, 1996 TAG: 9604120088
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: DIANE STRUZZI STAFF WRITER
The sound of barking dogs in a Southeast Roanoke neighborhood led a police officer to arrest an armed man in connection with a burglary early Thursday.
Officer Dean Boitnott captured Gary Wayne Goad, 19, a block from the burglary scene. Goad was holding a gun and did not drop it until Boitnott drew his own weapon, according to a police news release. No one was injured during the arrest.
Police have charged Goad with burglary, grand larceny and property damage in connection with three separate crimes early Thursday.
About 1:30 a.m., David Kelly of the 1400 block of Craig Robertson Road Southeast called 911 after he heard someone in his basement.
"I went down and looked," he said. "I couldn't see nobody. I noticed some stuff on my freezer that wasn't mine."
Kelly saw a beer can, three packs of cigarettes and a gun holster on his freezer. A police news release said a flashlight also was found in the basement.
It wasn't the first time Kelly had been burglarized. In the past year, he said, his house has been broken into four other times. Six weeks ago, an intruder stole everything from the freezer.
Thursday, Kelly said he "got my wife to watch out the window" while he called police. "That's when the boy run across the street behind some houses."
Boitnott pursued Goad on foot, tracking him by sound of barking dogs. He arrested Goad on the porch of a house in the 1300 block of Gillette Avenue.
Police also have charged Goad in connection with two vehicle break-ins and thefts that occurred just after midnight on Kefauver Road Southeast, down the block from Kelly's house.
Jerry D. Overstreet reported his truck window broken and a handgun, camera and flashlight stolen. Marsha Campbell reported her car window broken and some change taken.
It is unclear from the news release if the items Kelly saw in his basement and the gun Goad had when he was arrested had been stolen in those break-ins.
Late Thursday, Goad was in Roanoke City Jail, unable to post bond.
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