Police ID Suspects in Home Burglary

Warrants have been issued for the arrest of two people in connection with an April 5 home burglary.

Kendall Newsome of Roswell was already in custody on a number of unrelated drug charges when the warrant was issued Thursday. He was released early this evening after spending 40 days in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center. The other suspect, John Bradley Whitten of East Cobb, was in the county jail as recently as April 24 on unrelated drug and traffic charges.

Around 6 p.m. April 5, Newsome allegedly sent a text message to Whitten asking if he wanted to make money, according to Cobb County criminal warrants. In another text sent about 40 minutes later, Newsome wrote that he was in the neighborhood and asked Whitten "to let him know when he was nearby," records show.

Together, they allegedly broke into a home in the 4600 block of Gilhams Road, in Northeast Cobb near the Fulton County line, and took "a large amount of ... various electronics, jewelry, and foreign currency," according to the warrants.

Newsome "was later found to be in possession of a portion of the stolen property, including electronics and foreign currency," a Cobb police officer wrote in Newsome's warrant.

Whitten pawned another item at the Guitar Center, records show.

Both men face a charge of burglary in the first degree.