Woman scheduled for second court appearance
A Junction City woman who appeared Friday in 35th Judicial District Court on a robbery charge will return Monday for another first appearance hearing on separate charges.
Brittany M. Dumas, 29, who has given addresses of 767 Salem Road and 1680 Parkers Chapel, is also scheduled to appear in Union County Circuit Court on Aug. 15 on a bench warrant for an additional charge.
Dumas was arrested Thursday by the El Dorado Police Department after admitting to investigators that she was involved in a shoplifting-turned-robbery at Walmart Supercenter, 2730 N. West Ave.
The incident was reported on May 18.
Employees told police that a woman who had been detained for shoplifting became aggressive toward employees when she was told that police had been called.
An employee said the woman, later identified as Dumas, shoved him from the doorway and ran from the business.
While speaking with EPD investigators on Thursday, Dumas “confessed to her involvement in this incident,” and she was taken into custody.
On the same day of Dumas’s arrest, a woman reported to police the theft and fraudulent use of her debit card.
The woman said she learned that someone had used the card to withdraw more than $600 cash from the ATM at Smackover State Bank on Timberlane Drive.
The complainant identified Dumas as a suspect, and police said the bank’s video surveillance footage showed a woman matching Dumas’s description approaching the
ATM just after midnight Thursday.
Police said the woman covered the camera with her hand, briefly obstructing the view from the ATM.
The woman walked out of camera range moments later, police said.
Dumas told investigators that a man she knew had withdrawn the cash.
Police said two other people who were interviewed in connection to the incident said Dumas used the debit card to withdraw the cash from the ATM.
Dumas was arrested on a warrant for theft of property and fraudulent use of a debit/credit card while appearing in district court Friday on the robbery charge and a misdemeanor charge of enforcement of fines.
She is scheduled for another first appearance hearing on Monday on the theft and fraud charges.
A bench warrant was also issued for Dumas’s arrest failure to appear charges of drug possession (methamphetamine or cocaine) and possession of drug paraphernalia.
She has been placed on the Aug. 15 docket for Union County Circuit Court to face the charges listed in the bench warrant.
On Friday, Dumas reported to Union County sheriff ’s deputies the theft of several items — including an electronic benefits transfer card, three knives and clothes — from the Salem Road residence.
Deputies said Dumas expressed concern that someone would fraudulently use her EBT card.
She provided possible suspect information.
Battery
Also appearing in district court on Friday was Lakesha C. Frazier, 34, of 257 Union.
Frazier was issued a $10,000 unsecured bond on charges of second-degree battery and criminal mischief.
Frazier allegedly attacked her 69-year-old great-aunt on July 21.
The woman told police that she had gone to visit another relative at the woman’s rental property in the 1000 block of East Monroe.
She said Frazier was at the residence when she arrived.
Thinking that Frazier had planned to cut her hair, the woman said an argument ensued when she asked Frazier to clean up afterward.
She said Frazier also told her to leave the residence.
The woman said she ordered Frazier to leave, and when Frazier refused, she pointed her finger in Frazier’s face and demanded that Frazier go.
Police said the woman acknowledged that she used profanity, adding that Frazier then shoved her in the chest, causing her to strike the corner of the coffee table as she fell backward onto the couch.
The woman said Frazier attempted to strike her again as she was falling, but a friend pulled Frazier away.
She told police that the area of her back that struck the coffee table was sore. She also said her eyeglasses were scratched in the incident.
Frazier was arrested Wednesday on a warrant in connection to the incident.