Sheriff charges second fugitive in Bainbridge robbery
BAINBRIDGE – A woman wanted by the Chenango County Sheriff’s Office for helping a man rob the Bainbridge Great American at gunpoint in November was arrested in Florida earlier this month. She was transported to the county jail last week.
The Chenango County Court originally sought a warrant for the arrest of 27-year-old Jamie L. Ballard in March after police arrested her alleged co-conspirator Anthony R. Botte Jr., 23, Harpursville, on Feb. 28.
Ballard was arrested by the Martin County Sheriff’s Office in Florida May 6 as a fugitive from justice.
Sheriff’s Lt. Richard Cobb said Ballard waived her right to an extradition hearing and was picked up by local officers May 13, via commercial airplane. District Attorney Joseph McBride said Ballard was presumed innocent, but if she is convicted his office will seek to have the cost of extradition returned.
The DA said he would present the case to a grand jury in June.
The sheriff’s office issued a public notice March 14 that it had obtained a warrant for Ballard’s arrest and asked the public’s for help in finding her.
Cobb said a third party had donated a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. He said tips from the public aided in Ballard’s arrest, but the money has not yet been rewarded.
The Sheriff’s Office says Ballard and Botte entered the Bainbridge Great American along North Main Street at around 8:56 p.m. Nov. 28, dressed in black, wearing bandanas over their faces and one of them was carrying a pistol.
Cobb said no customers were in the store at the time, but the robbers forced two clerks to hand over more than $2,000 in cash.
Both defendants were charged with second degree robbery and second degree criminal use of a firearm, both class C felonies, fourth degree conspiracy, a class E felony, and fourth degree criminal possession of a weapon, a class A misdemeanor.
Though police have not confirmed which defendant(s) actually used the gun during the crime, Botte was additionally charged with fourth degree criminal possession of a weapon, a class A misdemeanor.
Botte is currently in Chenango County Correctional Facility on $50,000 cash bail. Ballard was arraigned in Town of Bainbridge Court and remanded to the jail on $100,000 cash bail.
The Chenango County Court originally sought a warrant for the arrest of 27-year-old Jamie L. Ballard in March after police arrested her alleged co-conspirator Anthony R. Botte Jr., 23, Harpursville, on Feb. 28.
Ballard was arrested by the Martin County Sheriff’s Office in Florida May 6 as a fugitive from justice.
Sheriff’s Lt. Richard Cobb said Ballard waived her right to an extradition hearing and was picked up by local officers May 13, via commercial airplane. District Attorney Joseph McBride said Ballard was presumed innocent, but if she is convicted his office will seek to have the cost of extradition returned.
The DA said he would present the case to a grand jury in June.
The sheriff’s office issued a public notice March 14 that it had obtained a warrant for Ballard’s arrest and asked the public’s for help in finding her.
Cobb said a third party had donated a $500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible. He said tips from the public aided in Ballard’s arrest, but the money has not yet been rewarded.
The Sheriff’s Office says Ballard and Botte entered the Bainbridge Great American along North Main Street at around 8:56 p.m. Nov. 28, dressed in black, wearing bandanas over their faces and one of them was carrying a pistol.
Cobb said no customers were in the store at the time, but the robbers forced two clerks to hand over more than $2,000 in cash.
Both defendants were charged with second degree robbery and second degree criminal use of a firearm, both class C felonies, fourth degree conspiracy, a class E felony, and fourth degree criminal possession of a weapon, a class A misdemeanor.
Though police have not confirmed which defendant(s) actually used the gun during the crime, Botte was additionally charged with fourth degree criminal possession of a weapon, a class A misdemeanor.
Botte is currently in Chenango County Correctional Facility on $50,000 cash bail. Ballard was arraigned in Town of Bainbridge Court and remanded to the jail on $100,000 cash bail.
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