Deputies arrest burglars

Pike County sheriff’s deputies recently arrested two burglars using walkie-talkies and listening to the sheriff’s office transmissions on a radio scanner.Gerald Pierce, 47, was found outside the residence listening to the scanner and Rebecca Bennett, 52, was also involved in the crime. Inside the home on New Hope Road, officers discovered that a hot water heater and other plumbing had been cut from the walls. Both are convicted felons and Bennett is still on parole for a methamphetamine conviction in Pike County.