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A man from the Athens area wanted since August for attempted murder in South Carolina was captured on Friday in Athens-Clarke County.
Second for the police.
The order confirmed pending warrants in South Carolina, along with three parole warrants for offenses in Athens.
Police were alerted to Mize’s whereabouts at a house on Candler Road, a cul-de-sac on Cherokee Road, after a former Mize employer called the police to report that Mize might be at the scene. The Barrow County man was hunting Mize personally, telling the police that Mize stole some tools from him.
The police detained a man sitting outside the shed and then used a public sound system to order everyone inside the shed to leave, according to the report. Two women and Mize left, and Mize was arrested without problems, according to the police.
A Crawford woman, 47, wanted for an Oglethorpe county warrant, was also arrested.
Mize, 35, is wanted in Oconee County, SC, on charges of attempted murder along with arson and theft charges, according to South Carolina officials.
A sheriff’s spokesman in Walhalla, SC, said Mize and Jennifer E. Beanes, 33, are accused of stealing items from a Goodwill tractor-trailer in Seneca, SC, and then setting the trailer on fire. Beanes was arrested in Athens in August.
Mize is also accused of attacking a man with a knife on August 13 in Wesminster, SC
Mize is in jail at Athens-Clarke County without bail, but South Carolina authorities have also suspended the crime.