Police chase ends with crash and arrest in connection to store burglary

A police chase involving a man and South Carolina Highway Patrol troopers ended in Conway with a car crash, and the man being arrested in connection to a store burglary that had just happened, according to an Horry County police report.

Richaudi Bryant, 33, of Charlotte, N.C., is charged with second-degree burglary and being held at the J. Reuben Long Detention Center where his bond had not been set as of Wednesday morning, according to jail records.

Police said they were called about 12:13 a.m. Tuesday to Jay’s Food Mart at 4010 W. U.S. 501 in Conway after someone broke the front glass door and took items.

Authorities reviewed surveillance footage of the incident and said they saw a man go behind the store counter and into the store office then leave with a cigar box in hand.

While police were still at Jay’s Food Mart investigating, they got information from dispatchers about an ongoing car chase involving a suspect and SCHP troopers, authorities said.

The pursuit ended when the suspect crashed into a curb near U.S. 501 and Mill Pond Road and was taken into custody by highway patrol troopers.

Horry County police went to the scene and noticed the apprehended man looked like the burglary suspect in surveillance footage, according to the report.

Authorities said they found a cigar box in the crashed car the man had been driving, and a gas station employee identified it and other items found in the car as the store’s property, and a burglary charge soon followed.

This story was originally published September 2, 2015 at 6:33 AM with the headline "Police chase ends with crash and arrest in connection to store burglary."