Deputies arrest Timmonsville man after robbery, chase
Florence County Detention Center
Bertis Lue Allen Isgett
Published: November 25, 2009
Deputies arrested a Timmonsville man after they said he robbed a woman in Florence and led them on a high-speed chase Tuesday afternoon.
Bertis Lue Allen Isgett, 39, of 3908 Peniel Road, is charged with armed robbery, possession of a weapon during the commission of a violent crime, assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature and failure to stop for a blue light, according to a Florence County Sheriff’s Office press release issued Wednesday.
Deputies were called to the scene of a reported armed robbery on Stokes Road in Florence at 4:07 p.m. Tuesday, where a woman was robbed at knifepoint. She told deputies the suspect stole her purse after a brief struggle, according to the release.
The victim called E-911 and gave dispatchers a description of the suspect and the vehicle he was driving, as well as his direction of travel. While en route to the scene, deputies spotted a vehicle matching the description and tried to stop it. The suspect instead led them on a high-speed chase that began on Sumter Street and ended in Darlington County. There, the suspect abandoned the vehicle and tried to run from the deputies, but was soon captured.
Isgett remains in custody at the Florence County Detention Center in Effingham awaiting a bond hearing.
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I am glad that this woman is safe and was unharmed. I am glad that the man was arrested and taken to jail! This is just one more thug off the streets! This is the action that I like to see from law enforcement! If this guy had not been caught this time - he would have been caught the next time and there would be a next time! Women should use every means to protect themselves!
If he had been reared by some of too many to count decent, moral, hard working blacks that I have personally known in my life, I believe there would have been different results.
Part of the problem is that many children of different races are indeed ‘raised’ rather than reared. As any good farmer can tell you, weeds raise themselves but a good crop like children must be cultivated.
YEAH the CLUES are all around us! Its the IDI0T bleeding heart liberals LIKE YOU angelswalk who won’t see the TRUTH!
How unimaginably crude saywhat get a clue.
Stokes Road; I wonder if this was just a robbery or did he know her?
If only we’d had a special center for middle-aged men to have something to do, he never would have come to this!
*Sob*
If this guy could have hurried up, switched shirts and faded into a neighborhood where a lot of criminal types that look similar to him were hanging out he might have avoided detection by the police. If the police tried to round up all the other folks that looked like him then there would have been a huge civil rights suit. I believe at that point we could count on Ed to show up. ;^)
Call Ed.Call Gov.Sanford.This criminal will still go to jail where he need to be.
I think they may have arrested the wrong man. He does not in any way come close to the description of most suspects we have seen in the reports of violent crime in our area. I’m gonna call Ed…lol
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