Haleyville - July 26, 2007

Haleyville Police report three individuals have been arrested and charged with Robbery 1st degree after they planned and carried out the robbery of a 56 year old man in Haleyville on July 25, 2007.

On Wednesday night July 25, 2007 at approximately 9:30 pm one man entered a residence at 2848 Jordan Street, Haleyville, claiming a family member was having an asthma attack and he needed to use the phone.  Once the first individual was inside a second individual entered wearing a ladies stocking over his head.

The two individuals demanded that the victim give them his medication. The two suspects took a small pocketknife from the victims’ pocket. The two suspects went into the victims’ bedroom and after taking some prescription medication and $102.00 from the man’s billfold that was in a nightstand drawer the individuals then left out the back door of the residence.

Authorities learned that the individuals had attempted to purchase toboggans from a local merchant and after being told they had none one of the individuals purchased a pair of ladies stockings, which authorities believe to be the stockings used in the robbery.

Arrested and charged with Robbery 1st Degree are:
            Mark Anthony Hines, age 25 of Haleyville
            Jessica Holcomb Yancey, age 31 of Haleyville
            William “John “ David Williams, age 42 of Haleyville.

All three individuals were arrested the following day, July 26, 2007 at approximately 10:39 am and transported on July 27, 2007 to the Winston County Jail and held under a $30,000 bond.