A 28 year-old man was arrested by Ruston Police last week after two encounters in less than two hours.
Jeremiah Thomas of Ruston was arrested May 29 on numerous charges from theft to threatening a law enforcement officer.
Shortly before 2 p.m., an officer was alerted to a shoplifting at the Family Dollar Store on South Monroe Street. The officer spotted the suspect leaving in a vehicle and stopped it.
A passenger in the car who identified himself as Jeremiah Canada was issued a citation.
At about 4 p.m., several officers went to a Norton Drive residence to execute a warrant on Jeremiah Thomas. Thomas was located standing in the front yard and he was arrested. When he was placed in a patrol car, he began kicking the vehicle door causing damage. He then told a supervisor on the scene that when he was released from jail, he would set her on fire.
The man identified in the first incident as Jeremiah Canada was determined to be Jeremiah Thomas. He was booked for theft less than $1,000 from Dollar General, resisting an officer by providing false information, simple criminal damage to property over $1,000, threatening, a law enforcement officer and two Ruston warrants for flight from an officer and resisting an officer.
This information has been provided by a law enforcement agency as public information. Persons named or shown in photographs or video as suspects in a criminal investigation, or arrested and charged with a crime, have not been convicted of any criminal offense and are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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