A Weldon man was charged Sunday with counts related to a business break-in on West Third Street, according to the town’s police department.

Chief Christopher Davis said shortly before 4:30 a.m. Sergeant L. Melton and Officer I. Smith were dispatched to a call of a breaking and entering in progress.

The officers met Corporal R. Chin of the Halifax County Sheriff’s Office at the location. Chin was responding to an unrelated call when he observed a person later identified as Vance Jerome Parker, 63, inside the business.

Parker was approached by the officers and arrested. The man sustained several minor injuries from the break-in and was treated before he was taken before a magistrate.

He was charged with breaking and entering, larceny after breaking and entering, receiving stolen goods or property, habitual larceny, habitual breaking and entering, and injury to personal property.

For those charges he received a $30,000 secured bond with a July 28 court date. He remains in the Halifax County Detention Center.

Meanwhile, Melton later charged Parker with a breaking and entering which occurred at the same business on May 29.

Davis said Melton, through review of security footage, determined that Parker was the person who broke into the business.

Additional warrants were taken out on Parker for breaking and entering, larceny after breaking and entering, and possession of stolen goods or property.

The amount of merchandise stolen was more than $400, Davis said. A July 28 court date was also set for this case.

Davis thanked the sheriff’s office for its assistance.