[StBernard] Man Breaks Into Woman's Home After Being Chased On A Shoplifting Incident

[Westley Annis]

Man Breaks Into Woman's Home After Being Chased On A Shoplifting Incident 
Written by WGNO ABC26 News | Wednesday, 15 September 2010 13:30 


A New Orleans man broke into an Arabi resident's home and confronted her
before noon on Tuesday, asking to hide him from St. Bernard Parish sheriff's
deputies who had chased him after a shoplifting in Chalmette, but officers
burst into the house and arrested the suspect after a struggle, Chief Deputy
Sheriff James Pohlmann said.

The woman - who said the man offered her money to hide him - was on the
phone with her boyfriend when the man came through a back door and she was
able to tell the boyfriend what was happening, which led to deputies being
alerted to the exact location, Pohlmann said.

The woman wasn't injured.

"This was an unusual shoplifting incident that became more serious when the
man involved bailed out of a vehicle and broke into the home of a
resident,'' Pohlmann said. "Numerous men and women of the Sheriff's Office
responded quickly and arrested all the individuals involved without anyone
being injured.''

Two New Orleans women, one a sister of the intruder and the other the man's
girlfriend, were arrested in a vehicle near where the man was arrested and
also booked in the shoplifting incident at the Wal-Mart store in Chalmette
and other charges.

Don Raines, 29, was booked with unauthorized entry of an inhabited dwelling
for breaking into the victim's house on Esteban Street in Arabi before 11
a.m. and with false imprisonment of the woman in her home, Pohlmann said.
Other charges included theft by shoplifting, possession of some $900 worth
of stolen infant formula, flight from an officer and resisting arrest. He
was booked into St. Bernard Parish Prison.

Pohlmann said Raines' sister, Danielle Raines, 25, and Don Raines'
girlfriend and mother of two children, Whitney Phipps, 19, were arrested in
a car - also on Esteban Street - by Sheriff's Deputy Henry Senez. Two young
children of Phipps were also in the vehicle.

Additionally, the drivers' license of a woman whose purse was stolen in
Jefferson Parish recently was found in the vehicle after the arrests and
Jefferson Parish authorities have been alerted, Pohlmann said.

Seventy-two cans of infant formula were found in the getaway car. Danielle
Raines was booked with shoplifting, aggravated assault on two sheriff's
deputies, resisting arrest

Danielle Raines was driving the vehicle that sped away from Wal-Mart after
the shoplifting but a ranking sheriff's official immediately followed them
and notified he sheriff's communications division.

At some point, near where Don Raines was arrested in the home, Raines got
out of the vehicle and made his way to the house, Pohlmann said.

Senez and other detectives and deputies also responded to the incident and
Senez initially saw the car driven by Danielle Raines on Center Street in
Arabi and stopped them on nearly Esteban Street, Pohlmann said.

Danielle Raines was booked with two counts of aggravated assault on
sheriff's deputies, shoplifting, resisting arrest, reckless operation of a
vehicle and with child endangerment for the children in the car.

Phipps was booked with shoplifting and child endangerment.

Pohlmann said Don Raines, holding one of the children, entered the Wal-Mart
store while the women waited in the vehicle. At some point he tried to take
a cart carrying infant formula out of the store, allegedly without paying,
but was noticed by a store employee and then he fled.

A ranking sheriff's official who was at the store was told what happened and
began following the fleeing vehicle and other eputies were notified.