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A team of officers from four local law enforcement agencies, acting on an anonymous tip, captured a man Tuesday they sought regarding an attack against a blind man and his daughter.
Tracey Wigfall, 35, Pine Street, was apprehended Tuesday when Statesboro Police Department Crime Suppression Unit detectives, Bulloch County Drug Suppression Team agents, Bulloch County Sheriff’s investigators and Candler County Sheriff’s deputies stopped a car in which he was traveling on Portal-Metter Road in Candler County, said Statesboro Police Capt. Scott Brunson.
Wigfall was charged with aggravated assault, burglary, robbery, battery (family violence), probation warrant and being wanted on a bench warrant, according to Bulloch County Jail records.
Officers also arrested Shari Cherlynn Powell, 40, West Grady Street, on charges of hindering the apprehension of a criminal, Brunson said.
Both were taken into custody without incident, he said.
Feb. 23, Wigfall viciously attacked a 55-year-old blind man and his 40-year-old daughter at their Johnson Street home, said Statesboro Police Maj. J. R. Holloway. Police immediately began searching for Wigfall, and asked citizens for information helping locate him. Citizen information did help lead to Wigfall’s arrest, Brunson said.
The day after the incident, he said “Obviously this aggravated assault on an elderly, blind citizen was perpetrated by a coward.”
“I’d like to thank the citizens for all tips and information leading to Tracey Wigfall’s arrest,” he said Thursday.
Holloway said “Wigfall broke the front door of the victims’ residence ... took cash and other items and attacked the (woman and her disabled father) with a plank of wood and other household items.”
Both victims were transported to East Georgia Regional Medical Center for treatment and then the father was transported to (Savannah) for severe head trauma, he said. The man was listed in stable condition shortly after the incident.
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