Arrests in Two East Texas Home Invasions
Posted/updated on: July 27, 2012 at 2:28 am
LONGVIEW — Gregg County authorities have three persons in custody in connection with two home invasions. That’s according to KETK and the Longview News-Journal. The first incident was reported around 11:15 Wednesday morning in the 4400 block of Smelley Road in Hallsville. An armed elderly man said he confronted two men who had broken into a house. He told investigators they struggled with him, disarmed him and hit him in the forehead with the gun.
Shortly after that a burglary was reported in Lakeport. A witness gave a description of the suspects that was similar to the men in the Hallsville robbery. State troopers spotted a vehicle matching the description occupied by two men and a woman. They stopped the vehicle on Farm Road 2011 in Gregg County. A gun found in the car turned out to be the one taken in the Hallsville robbery. The suspects were identified as Bruce Vactor, 23, Jeremy Germaine Jackson, 30 and Brittany Bush, 24.
