Three arrests have been made in two separate car thefts a weekapart from the North Jackson Street branch of the BrookhavenFuneral Home.

Funeral Director Harold Smith said the suspects are not formeremployees, nor does he know them or why they targeted BrookhavenFuneral Home specifically.

The first theft took place Friday night, June 16, and the secondon Friday, June 22.

Quincy Walker, 18, of 226 South Washington St., and Bob T.Henderson, 20, of 900 Williams St., Apt. 65, are alleged to havebroken into the funeral home and taken several sets of keys.

They were able to start a Mercury Grand Marquis and remove itfrom the premises.

Walker was arrested Friday night around 10:30 on a city warrantfor burglary and grand larceny in last week’s theft.

Henderson was arrested last Sunday on charges of burglary andgrand larceny.

The BPD apprehended a juvenile around 8 a.m. Saturday in thesecond funeral home theft which was a 2004 black LincolnContinental.

The juvenile was taken to Lincoln County jail after a chase thatbegan in town ended on Highway 84 southbound. Lincoln CountySheriff’s deputies set up spikes on Highway 84 after being advisedthat BPD was involved in a chase going out Monticello Street. Thesubject is believed to have wrecked the vehicle trying to go aroundthe spikes.

A dispatcher at the Mississippi Highway Patrol said the car hadbeen totaled after hitting a pine tree on Highway 84 during thechase. BPD officers apprehended the subject after a foot chase inthe wooded area off the highway.

Assistant Police Chief Nolan Jones said earlier in the week thatother keys were also taken in the first burglary.

“They also had the keys to a hearse, but they didn’t take it. Itlooks like they just broke into the building and took the keys,” hesaid.

The Mercury was recovered last Sunday morning in Eastview.

“And then just last night they broke into the back of thefuneral home and took the Lincoln,” said Funeral Director HaroldSmith. “One of our employees had come by early this morning andnoticed that the building had been broken into.”

Smith said last week only a few sets of keys were taken but thistime they were all stolen.

“They got all of our keys this time. It paralyzed us because wehad some funerals in other locations that we needed to get to,” hesaid.

Smith said the police were able to return the keys to thefuneral home after apprehending the juvenile subject.

“They found them after the car crashed, and we were able to getour keys back,” he said. “But it was a little inconvenient therefor a while.”

He said he did not know whether the car had hit the spikes orlost control trying to go around them, but that it probablywouldn’t make a difference in the end.

“I haven’t seen the car but from the description I don’t thinkfour blown out tires would have made a difference,” he said.