Judge Alma Hinton sentenced Jermaine Hale to 44 to 56 months in prison for the break-in as well as having 16 bags of marijuana on him during an October traffic stop. He also got 60 days in prison for DWI.
Hale was ordered to pay $2,000 restitution to the school for stealing a computer after he and allegedly Clarence Burgess threw a cinder block through the window.
Roanoke Rapids police responded to a silent alarm at Chaloner Middle School and Officer Terrence Tyler spotted a suspicious vehicle leaving the area. The vehicle took off and at the end of the chase the driver, Hale, jumped and ran.
Some $13,000 worth of goods was stolen from the Forrest Hills larceny, the Halifax County District Attorney’s Office said.
Hale eluded police following the Chaloner break-in until he was caught last month, cowering in a closet at his mother’s house.
His arrest ended a search for the Roanoke Rapids man who was suspected of being in a vehicle which backed into a Roanoke Rapids patrol car.
Sergeant Perry Parks was responding to a call in the South Rosemary area about a wanted person and saw a person running across Roanoke Avenue in the 1900 block.
At some point during the pursuit the man, thought to be Hale, got in a car and a chase ensued.
The chase ended at a mobile home park in the South Rosemary area and a person, believed to be Hale, jumped out.
At the conclusion of the chase a patrol car was hit and sustained minor damage.
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