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March 5, 2002 
 
Impact-West Absconders Charged with B&E&L
 
Three teens assigned to the Impact-West program were jailed Tuesday after allegedly walking away from the facility and breaking into a nearby house. 
 
Lakeith Deshon Wall, 17, of 2703 Wingate Avenue, Charlotte; Darius Odell Webster, 18, of 665 Atkinson Road, Silam; and Jason Troy Crouse, 17, of 167 Raspberry Lane, Sparta are suspected of burglarizing the home of Connie B. Whisnant at 215 Arnold Drive in Morganton. Whisnant reported the theft of clothes, coins and jewelry. 
 
A Burke County deputy confronted the trio shortly after the burglary; however they ran away. After a search by officers with the Sheriff's Office, Morganton Department of Public Safety and the Broughton Police Department, the teens were apprehended separately in the Enola Road and Mull Elementary School area. 
 
The three suspects had began the Impact program on March 4th, authorities said. 
 
In addition to the breaking, entering and larceny warrant each teen was served, they will be probably be facing probation violation charges as well, an investigator said. 
 
The teens were jailed under a $10,000 bond and has a first court appearance today. 
 
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