Husband, wife crime fighters foil burglary

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November 16, 2009

By Jean Cole The News Courier Mon Nov 16, 2009, 07:03 PM CST

An Elkmont wife and her husband teamed up Saturday morning to nab a would-be burglar, an official said.

A woman living in the 19000 block of Bick Jock Road, north of Athens, heard a noise at her home about 6:30 a.m. and looked out the window to see a man looking through one of their vehicles, said Limestone County Chief Investigator Stanley McNatt.

She called her husband and then the Sheriff’s Department.

Her husband arrived first and got the would-be burglar down on the ground until deputies Donnie Johns, Tom Gilbert and Brent Burroughs arrived and arrested the man, McNatt said.

Joe Wade Williams, 36, of 25921 Putman Circle, Elkmont, was charged with second-degree attempted burglary, third-degree theft and two counts of breaking and entering a vehicle for allegedly taking an air-compressor, entering two vehicles and trying to enter the residence, McNatt said.

He was being held in the Limestone County Jail in lieu of posting $11,000 bail, records show.

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