Cornelia police arrested a Peachtree Corners man after he admitted taking a little something extra from the Taco Bell in Cornelia. Officers arrested 38-year-old James Edgar Dunn on June 18 for stealing an employee’s keys.
According to the Cornelia Police Department’s incident report, the employee’s son-in-law witnessed Dunn steal the keys from a table inside the restaurant. Three days later, he spotted Dunn sitting on a bench outside the nearby Walmart and contacted police.
Responding to the follow-up call, officers found Dunn outside the store where the employee positively identified him.
When officers asked Dunn where the keys were, he told them they were in his hotel room at the Quality Inn on J Warren Road, the report states. Police arrested Dunn without incident and charged him with misdemeanor theft of lost/mislaid property.
After obtaining a search warrant, police say they recovered the keys and a little something extra in Dunn’s hotel room— four baggies of suspected methamphetamine.
Police added felony drug possession charges to Dunn’s case and booked him into the Habersham County Detention Center. As of June 22, he remained in jail on a $5800 bond.
