STRONG – Information supplied by residents helped Franklin County deputies in bringing charges against three people for burglaries involving the theft of firearms.

Glendon Ladd, 25, of Freeman, was arrested Sunday by Deputy Ken Charles on a charge of burglary at a South Strong Road home. Ladd was released on $500 cash bail, said Detective Tom White from the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department.

The investigation brought White and Charles back to the Ladd’s home Wednesday morning where he was arrested on felony charges of burglary and theft in connection with a incidents on Frederick and Church Hill roads that were reported Tuesday when several firearms were taken, White said.

Ladd’s cash bail was set at $5,000 for each count of felony burglary and theft, White said.

The investigation then led White and Deputies Charles and Sandy Burke to Phillips later Wednesday where they charged Jonathan Parker, 19, and Heather Haley, 21, both of Freeman Township, with two counts of felony burglary and two counts of felony theft of firearms relating to the earlier incidents. Bail was set at $5,000 cash on each count, he said.

Over the past few days, White and Charles interviewed several people about the burglaries and received tips from others, he said. Several stolen guns were recovered Tuesday from people in Phillips, Avon and Kingfield who had unknowingly purchased them, he said.

A safe and a strongbox taken from the South Strong Road home were recovered from a gravel pit on property of the home owner. The safe had been forced open and had several bullet holes in it, White said.

Trooper Scott Dalton, who was investigating Tuesday’s Church Hill Road burglary, was notified and interviewed Ladd on Wednesday at the Franklin County Detention Center.

Ladd was then also charged for the Church Hill burglary, White said.