By Jody Norwood
Tribune-Courier News Editor
jnorwood@tribunecourier.com

BENTON – Two Arkansas men accused of a rash of burglaries Jan. 31 were in circuit court Monday. Timothy Pullen, 21, and Steven Fox, 32, both entered not guilty pleas before Circuit Court Judge Dennis Foust.

The Benton Police Department received a call just after midnight Jan. 31 of a burglary in process at the 800 block of Birch Street. A second burglary was reported near the same time at the 800 block of Elm Street.

According to reports, Marshall County Sheriff’s Department deputy Nathan Maxlow observed two individuals– Pullen and Fox– running from the area toward the Benton Inn. Maxlow detained the suspects. Benton officer William Treadway investigated the scene, determining that several residences in the area of both calls had been broken into.

Officers were able to track two individual sets of footprints in the snow to the site where Maxlow had detained Pullen and Fox.

Pullen, of Arkadelphia, Ark., was charged with six counts each of second degree burglary of a residence and second degree criminal mischief, two counts of unlawful taking more than $500 and one count of possession of burglary tools.

Fox, of Hot Springs, Ark., was charged with three counts each of second degree residental burglary and complicity to second degree burglary, and two counts of theft by unlawful taking more than $500.

A status hearing for both men has been set for March 15.