FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Burglary Investigation leads to pursuit & Arrest

Date: October 16, 2009  Time: 1:00 P.M.

Gallia County Sheriff’s Office

18 Locust Street         

Gallipolis, Ohio 45631

Gallipolis - Deputies were notified on October 15, 2009 of several residential burglaries

in the Morgan Township area.  Description of the vehicle was a white four door car believed

to be a General Motors product.  Deputies initiated investigation and a suspect from Jackson

County, Ohio had been seen on one of the roads where a burglary occurred.  Deputies made

inquiry to Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputies who advised that the suspect was already on

probation and they would attempt to locate him.  A pursuit of the individual was initiated by the

Oak Hill Police Department and Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputies in the area of the Village of

Oak Hill, Jackson County, Ohio.  The pursuit culminated in Rio Grande, Ohio on US 35 with the

apprehension of two suspects; one male, one female.  An inventory of the vehicle revealed several

items taken from the residential burglaries and a shotgun taken from a burglary at a residence on

SR 850 that had not been reported at that time.  Investigators responded and interviewed both

individuals who are now lodged in the Gallia County Jail pending arraignments this AM. 

Jack R Spiers, age 38, Oak Hill, Ohio   and Jessica K Duncan, age 32, Oak Hill, Ohio were

arrested and charged with burglary and complicity to burglary. Both were on probation with local

courts.  Gallia County Sheriff Joe Browning commends the efforts of the area law enforcement

officers involved in this incident.