Second Suspect From Toccoa Arrested in String of Burglaries in Oconee County, SC

A Toccoa man is behind bars in Oconee County, SC on a combined $287,500.00 surety bond, after his arrest Sunday morning on outstanding warrants related to an investigation of break-ins of storage units.

Oconee County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jimmy Watt tells WLHR News that 34-year-old Roger Laquerrius Neal, of Whisenant Street, has been booked into the Oconee County Detention Center.

Neal was charged with four counts each of Second Degree Burglary and Malicious Injury to Property as well as two counts of Grand Larceny.

He was also served an outstanding arrest warrant on charges of Grand Larceny in regard to an investigation by the Seneca Police Department.

Watt said the Sheriff’s Office investigation began on June 28th after Deputies responded to a Storage Unit business on Toccoa Highway near Westminster in regards to reports of a burglary.

Deputies discovered four separate storage units had been broken into.

The investigation was turned over to the Oconee County Sheriff’s Property Crimes Unit in the Criminal Investigations Bureau.

Based on evidence obtained during the investigation, it was determined that Neal and Alexander had broken into the four separate storage buildings at night by damaging the padlocks on each storage unit.

Items allegedly stolen from the storage units include a flat-screen TV, gold jewelry, electronic sound equipment, and an Apple watch.

Neal and another suspect, also from Toccoa, are also charged with stealing tools out of one storage unit while also stealing electronics and jewelry from a separate storage unit.

Neal is the second person arrested in the investigation.

On September 12th, 25-year-old Bradley Alexander Cleveland, of Harment Valley Road in Toccoa, was booked into the Oconee County Detention Center after being transported from the Stephens County (GA) Detention Center.

Cleveland remains in jail on a combined $128,500.00 surety bond on four counts each of Second Degree Burglary and Malicious Injury to Property as well as two counts of Grand Larceny.

Watt said should either Neal or Cleveland make bond, they will be required to wear electronic monitoring devices, as a condition of bond.