At approximately 2 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 8, Holbrook Police responded to the 400 block of East Hampshire Street for a burglary in progress. The home owner who had left to go to the store returned to find two male subjects inside the residence. She left the house and called police. The subjects fled over the back fence leaving multiple rooms ransacked and ran west down the alley where they split up. One continued west down East Hampshire Street while the other fled north down Second Street then ran east. Neighbors in the area assisted police in locating one of the subjects who was identified as Andre Coleman, 22, of Holbrook. As police arrived, Coleman dropped several items and fled on foot. Officers pursued the suspect on foot and followed in vehicles. Coleman was located near his residence in the 100 block of East Florida where he was taken into custody after a brief struggle with police. There were multiple other reported burglaries in the following hours on East Hampshire Street and Holbrook Police are still investigating to determine if they are all connected. The identity of the second subject is still unknown. The items dropped by Coleman included a firearm, a laptop computer, and other electronic and personal items belonging to the victims. Coleman was also in possession of items belonging to the victims when arrested. Coleman was charged with burglary and multiple counts of possession of stolen property and booked into the Navajo County Jail.
