Detective Bobby Martin of the Roanoke Rapids Police Department said Travonte Clanton was jailed on $50,000 bond and has a September 17 court date.

His arrest around 9 a.m. today came after Roanoke Rapids received information about his possible location in Northampton County where the 17-year-old Roanoke Rapids resident frequents. Martin relayed this information to Northampton County, which saturated the Highway 46 area he was thought to be traveling.

“I greatly appreciate the assistance from Captain Chuck Hasty,” Martin said. “It just shows the good relationship between the two departments. With that kind of relationship it makes it easy to pick up bad guys.”

Hasty said, “We got information he was in the Gaston area and found a possible location and saturated the area.”

Deputies William Jacobs, Ikseisha Jacobs and Lieutenant Bo Deloatch assisted in setting up the dragnet.

Northampton turned Clanton over to Roanoke Rapids where he was charged with two counts of possession of stolen goods, one count of breaking and entering that was related to a residential crime investigated by Detective Corey Dixon, two orders for arrest on probation violations from Nash County, two counts of criminal damage to property and one count of felony larceny.

Some $34,000 in damage was done to the ice boxes at Roanoke Valley Ice.