Salisbury Police charged a man with breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s Polo Drive home Thursday night, but he reportedly was interrupted before removing anything.
Cody Lane Morris, 24, was charged Thursday with felony first-degree burglary and misdemeanor domestic criminal trespass. He was placed in the Rowan County Detention Center without a bond.
A report said the woman heard someone messing with the door and saw the suspect through a mirror hanging in the living room. She told police the suspect said, “I didn’t think you were home.”
The woman told him she was calling police, he took off and jumped into his pickup. She told police he’d moved out a few weeks before and gotten all of his belongings then. She could not say for sure whether anything was stolen.
In other police reports:
• A woman reported Thursday being assaulted by a juvenile on the school bus in the 1500 block of Tilman Street and Merritt Avenue.
• A man reported Thursday a simple assault at Salisbury High.
• A woman reported Thursday a larceny in the 400 block of Carolina Boulevard.
• A man reported Thursday a vandalism occurred in the 400 block of Lantz Avenue.
• A man reported Thursday a theft from his vehicle in the 1300 block of West Bank Street.
• Phillip Augustine Wiggins, 49, was charged Thursday with felony possession with the intent to sell or deliver marijuana in the 500 block of North Clay and East Franklin streets.
• Taeshon Lee Gadson, 21, was charged Thursday with felony statutory rape/sex offense following an investigation from Spencer.
• Edward Eugene Sifford, 54, was charged Thursday with misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia in the 200 block of North Shaver Street.
• Garth Nathaniel Arnold, 47, and Michael Eugene Daniels, 55, were both charged Thursday with misdemeanor possession of stolen goods in the 500 block of East Innes Street.
• James Raymond Blocker, 44, of the 100 block of Lehue Parker Road, Norwood, was charged Thursday with felony breaking and entering and two counts of felony larceny that stemmed from October 2000 and May 2012 warrants.
In sheriff’s reports:
• A man reported Wednesday someone took his driveway lights from his property in the 1200 block of Saw Road.
• A woman reported Wednesday an assault occurred in the 2600 block of Lower Stone Church Road, Rockwell.
• A man reported Wednesday someone opened an American Express account in his name in the 400 block of East N.C. 152, China Grove.
• A woman reported Wednesday someone damaged a car driven by a man in the 2200 block of Amity Hill Road, Cleveland.
• Rebecca Lee Morrison, 48, was charged Wednesday with misdemeanor interfering with electric gas or water meters.
• Tracy Cameron Bernhardt, 17, was charged Wednesday with misdemeanor larceny after he took an iPod and shoes from students at East Rowan High School.
• James Ivan Moore, 59, was charged Wednesday with misdemeanor assault on a female in the 4000 block of Long Ferry Road.
Contact reporter Shavonne Potts at 704-797-4253.