By Erin Smith
Two South Carolina men made their first appearance today in Bladen County Superior Court on charges related to the February robbery of the Dollar Tree in Elizabethtown.
Robert Lee Fogle, age 60, and Darryl Antonio Burden, age 35, both of South Carolina, appeared before Judge James Bell Jr. on Monday morning for their first appearance. Both men are charged with safecracking, felony breaking and entering and felony larceny after breaking and entering. Both men are scheduled to be back in Bladen County Superior Court on June 4th.
Judge Bell appointed Attorney Andrew Wall to represent Fogle. Fogle remained in the Bladen County Jail under a $100,000 bond.
Burden waived his right to a court appointed attorney and informed Judge Bell he will hire his own legal counsel. Burden was out on bond on Monday.
Elizabethtown Police are still seeking a third person involved in the break-in. Officers are still searching for Thyron Triamine Burden. He is also facing the same charges as his brother, Darryl Burden, and Fogle.
Elizabethtown Police Investigator D. Cheshire said the two men were arrested and brought to the Bladen County Jail Friday evening.
“They were stopped in Sumter, South Carolina and evidence found in the vehicle tied them to the Dollar Tree robbery,” said Cheshire.
Employees of the Dollar Tree in Elizabethtown were arriving for work on Tuesday, February 27th, when they discovered the store had been broken in to and robbed overnight. An undisclosed amount of cash was removed from the store’s safe.
Cheshire said the Dollar Tree store in Pembroke also reported a similar beak-in ocurred at their location. He added there are other robberies in South Carolina where the men are also suspects.
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