1 jailed after scuffle in continuing Cricket phone store robbery investigation

UPDATE @ 8:54 p.m.: The vehicle investigators believe was used in this week's armed robbery of a Cricket phone store in Harrison Twp. led those investigators to a home in the 2500 block of Hancock Avenue, less than 2 miles from the store on West Siebenthaler Avenue.

A 29-year-old man was taken into custody after a scuffle during which a deputy shot and killed the man's dog, Montgomery County Sheriff Rob Streck said.

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Investigators cleared the scene just before 7:30 p.m., having executed a search warrant and interviews with others who were in the house.

The man taken into custody, Henry Harris, was arrested about 4:30 p.m. and booked into the Montgomery County Jail on misdemeanor counts of obstruction and resisting arrest, according to the jail's online record.

There has been no word whether anyone else who was in the house is in custody or whether investigators are looking at Harris as being involved in the Cricket phone store robbery.

"We believe that this house, that people involved with this house, were involved in that robbery," the sheriff said Thursday afternoon before the warrant had been executed.

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Evidence -- Streck didn't say what evidence specifically -- and the vehicle brought investigators to the home early in the afternoon, he said.

One of the people in the home "was not happy we were here" and that person scuffled with deputies.

"Once the resisting started at the front of the house, the dog came out and, unfortunately, began to defend its owner against our deputy," Streck said.

The deputy was not hurt.

A deputy self-dispatched to the Hancock Avenue address about 2:30 p.m. on a “suspicious circumstance,” according to county regional dispatch radio traffic.

Fire crews were also dispatched to the address because of an outdoor burn near the house we’re told may have been potential evidence in the Cricket phone store robbery investigation. A neighborhood resident said he saw investigators photographing barrels where the burning was occurring.

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