Three arrested in July 4 burglary

By Michelle Mann
Published: July 07, 2009

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Three men arrested in connection with the Saturday evening burglary of a Main Street computer store remain in Coffee County Jail, according to sheriff’s department records.

Timothy A. Read, 30, and Robert Tenny,19, both of 204 W. Park Ave., Enterprise, and Edmond Demetrius Thompson, 30, of 191 N. Harris, Fort Rucker, were arrested and charged with third-degree burglary in connection with a burglary at Fleming Multi Media Group on Main Street in Enterprise.

Store owner Brian Fleming said Monday that two laptop computers and an LCD screen were taken in the burglary, which apparently occurred between 8:30 and 9 p.m. Saturday. One of the computers had a 15.4 inch monitor and a dual-core processor, Fleming said. "It was a display model, so the power cord wasn’t attached."

No one was at the store when the burglary occurred and no one was injured, according to police reports. "Well, no one was physically injured," Fleming said as he surveyed the destroyed glass store front. "But how do you measure the injury caused by knowing that something like this could have happened here on Main Street, USA?"

Fleming estimates the loss at $3,600 and said he does not have insurance. "So it is very much a loss," he said.

The downtown businessman said that, in his 25 years doing business at that location, the most damage he had previously suffered was having a window accidentally shattered by a youngster with a rock.

He added that an empty EVEREX computer box is the only thing that has been recovered by authorities to his knowledge, "But somebody somewhere is going to have to go someplace to get a power cord because the one display laptop lacks one."

Merchants on Main Street are small family-owned businesses, Fleming said, shaking his head as he surveyed the store.

"I feel like my livelihood has been threatened and that is kind of scary."