PARIS TN: Borrowed car catches fire in Dana parking lot

A 2003 Ford Taurus belonging to Colt Ragsdale of Camden had caught fire in the parking lot.

Two trucks and six firefighters from the PFD responded to the blaze, but the car, worth $5,000, and contents, worth $250, were destroyed.

According to a report by Sheriff’s Sgt. Wayne Fuqua, Ragsdale had loaned the car to William Randy Scroggins of Mansfield, who drove it to Dana, where he works.

Scroggins told Fuqua he had gone to the car during his break and when he returned to work, the car was fine.

In other incidents:

• A Springville man reported $740 worth of items had been stolen from his shop on Rushing Road.

Fuqua responded to the call at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday. The man said numerous items, including a Husqvarna chain saw valued at $390 and a framing hammer air nailer worth $130, had been taken from the shop.

• A Salem Circle woman reported a rental vehicle she had been driving was stolen from a store parking lot .

Paris Police Patrolman Daniel Andres went to the store on North Market Street and talked to the woman, who said she and a Waverly woman whom she had just met a few weeks ago had gone to the store.

She went into the store and when she came out, the 2017 Buick SUV rented from Enterprise Rent-A-Car was gone, and so was the Waverly woman.

The woman said they had met through a mutual friend whom she had known for about three weeks.

However, she told Andres she didn’t know how to contact either woman and couldn’t remember the location where she first met the Waverly woman.

• An Old Union Loop man was arrested at a local fast food restaurant Wednesday morning and charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and especially aggravated robbery.

Timothy L. Davis III, 18, of 290 Old Union Loop was arrested at 11:43 a.m. Wednesday at the Mineral Wells Avenue restaurant by Sheriff’s Deputy Jim Higgins.

Davis is scheduled to appear today in Henry County General Sessions Court. His bond was set at $100,000.

• A Dyer woman faces an aggravated burglary charge in Henry County after her arrest Tuesday night.

Desirae Michelle Carter, 32, was already an inmate in the Gibson County jail in Trenton when Sheriff’s Deputy Hayley French went there to arrest her at 8:53 p.m. Tuesday.

Carter is scheduled to appear today in General Sessions Court here. Her bond was set at $10,000.