One of two men charged with breaking into an Elizabethtown home in November was sentenced Monday in Bladen County Superior Court and ordered to testify against his accomplice.
Jimmy Michael Cummings, 34, of Murfreesboro, plead guility to breaking and entering and larceny after breaking and entering under an agreement with the state. Judge Ola M. Lewis sentenced Cummings to a minimum of 15 months and a maximum of 27 months in state custody, pay restitution of $200 for damages to the home, have no contact with co-defendant Timothy O’Neil Locklear Jr. and testify against Locklear, whose case is pending.
Lewis also ordered that if Cummings was charged with a felony in Bladen County in the future that his bond would be $1 million for each charge.
Cummings and Locklear, who is from Lumberton, were charged with breaking into a home on the 2000 block of West Broad Street about 10:30 a.m. on Nov. 6.
According to court statements and police reports, a neighbor noticed a suspicious vehicle pull into the yard of the house Nov. 6 and watched Cummings and Locklear break in and begin loading items into a burgundy Honda Odyssey minivan. The neighbor called law enforcement.
As officers arrived on scene, the men got into the Odyssey and sped away. The chase, which involved Elizabethtown officers and Bladen County deputies, went only a few blocks before the driver pulled over.
Assistant District Attorney Courtney Sanford told the court that items valued at more than $6,300 were recovered from the van and returned to the owner. Among the items recovered were a television, video game system and games, laptop computer and an E-reader.
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