Over the course of just nine days recently, the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office made a total of 27 arrests and recovered a stolen vehicle, which resulted in the arrest of a Cherokee County man.

On Tuesday, January 12th, agents with the DeKalb County Narcotics Unit were involved in a vehicle pursuit that started around Marshall Road in Rainsville and ended on Dugout Valley Road in Ft Payne.

Steven Brett Sutton, age 25 of Centre, was arrested on charges of Receiving Stolen Property 1st Degree, Attempting to Elude Police and Reckless Endangerment; the vehicle that Sutton was driving was found to be stolen out of Georgia.  Both the Rainsville and Ft Payne Police Departments assisted in this arrest.