Couple Who Took Grandma on Crime Spree Face Additional Charges

As of Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Christopher Puckett

Kristy Kimball

Two West End residents who were arrested after a manhunt last week are facing additional charges.

Christopher Edward Puckett, 27, and Kristy Jean Kimball, 31, have each been charged with five counts of felony forgery of instrument, five counts of uttering forged instrument, three counts of felony financial card theft, three counts of financial card fraud, three counts of identity theft and one count of exploit elderly trust, according to a press release from the Moore County Sheriff’s Office.

Puckett and Kimball, both of West End, were arrested last Thursday in a wooded area near West End. They were located with the help of a North Carolina Highway Patrol helicopter. The arrest went without incident.

The Sheriff's Office had issued warrants for both subjects earlier in the day. Puckett was charged with two counts of breaking and entering, two counts of larceny, two counts of possession of stolen property and second-degree kidnapping involving his 87-year-old grandmother, according to a release.

He is accused of forcing his grandmother to accompany him on a crime spree. She was unharmed, according to the release.

Kimball, who lived with Puckett, was charged with two counts of breaking and entering, two counts of larceny and two counts of possession of stolen property.

The latest charges against the two stem from a complaint of unauthorized bank transactions and the theft of credit cards from an elderly woman who was in a nursing home at the time. The woman’s daughter reported to the Sheriff’s Office on June 10 that her mother’s credit cards had been stolen and all the money in her savings account had been withdrawn, according to the release.

An investigation had been on-going since the report of the thefts, according to the release.

Puckett and Kimball are in jail, under an additional bail of $25,000. Puckett’s bail in the earlier charges had been set at $540,000, while Kimball’s bail had been set at $520,000.

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libsmom92 2 years, 7 months ago

Well well well, I thought the bank charges would never come. I am glad that everything can be taken care of now rather than one at a time. I hope that they both are learnning a lesson and come out in a few years to be better people. I am sure the families and friends involved with these two are hoping the same thing. I am not going to bad mouth them as I think the last story had enough of that. I will be praying for their families. Love you guys!!!!

Poundman 2 years, 7 months ago

Libsmom2

If you would change a few years to ten years I would agree with your post. I know the jails are crowded but if we executed a few murderers we would have more room.

debc 2 years, 7 months ago

Both of these need to spend some serious time behind bars, obviously the time they spent behind bars previously did not help, as they came right back out and started using drugs and stealing from the grandmother and other people..I have yet to figure out how two people on house arrest were able to live together....am I missing something here....they need to go ahead and get this trial over with and send them somewhere, other than Moore County , so the families can have some peace and the young children of this "lost"mama" drug soul" will quit embarrasing them..these young children have done nothing to deserve what is happening to them....so Chris and Kristy...get out of town, we don't want you here any more, do your drugging and stealing somewhere else...