SPD arrests two for burglaries, drug trafficking

June 22, 2018 6:07:16 PM

Starkville police have arrested a man suspected of multiple burglary incidents.

SPD officers, with assistance from the U.S. Marshals Task Force, arrested 49-year-old Lannie Stallings on Friday. Stallings was arrested on suspicion of three counts of commercial burglary, felony taking of a motor vehicle and a residential burglary.

According to affidavits obtained from Starkville municipal court, on June 11, Stallings committed commercial burglary at a business on Lindbergh Boulevard. That same day, according to court documents, he took a 2004 GMC Yukon from the same location. On June 15, according to the documents, he broke into and took undisclosed items a home on Martin Luther King Drive.

Stallings is also accused of commercial burglary at two businesses on Highway 12 west from June 17.

Stallings was booked in the Oktibbeha County Jail, where he is being held on $125,000 bond.

Police also arrested 62-year-old Janet Times Friday on suspicion of trafficking a controlled substance. SPD Public Information Officer Brandon Lovelady said officers made an on-view arrest while serving warrants on Stallings and the two cases are not directly related.

According to an affidavit, Times had 73 grams of crack cocaine.

Times was booked in the Oktibbeha County Jail, where she is being held on $50,000 bond.

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