LONGVIEW (KYTX) - A 50-year-old Longview man with a history of arrests is back in the Gregg County Jail, this time on an attempted burglary charge.
According to arrest records, Longview police officer Alexander Chorba responded to a home in the 300 block of St. Clair Street in reference to a residential burglary shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday. The victim told Chorba that she heard a knock on her door, and when she opened it, she saw an unknown man holding a chain in his hand standing in her doorway holding the screen door back.
"She said she told the man to leave and get off her property. She said he then attempted to push through the door to enter her residence. She said she grabbed the door and slammed it back towards the subject, locking him out," Chorba said in his report. "She observed the subject as he walked across the street entering a neighbor's back yard."
Chorba arrested the suspect, identified as Kym David Pearce on attempted burglary of a habitation, a third degree felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Online records show that Pearce has been arrested five times by four different Gregg County law enforcement agencies in the past six months, including a May 2 arrest by Longview police for drug possession, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, a grand jury indictment for robbery and two warrants for manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance and possession of a dangerous drug. Pearce was released from jail on $42,500 bond on Aug. 6.
He remains in the Gregg County Jail today on $15,000 bond.
Kym David Pearce
