BURGLARY SUSPECTS ARRESTED AFTER ALLEGED STORAGE UNIT THEFT IN CROSSVILLE
According to Crossville Police report, on February 11, 2026, a burglary occurred at Go Store It storage units on West Ave., where the locks on two units—W46 and W29—were cut. Surveillance video captured a green Dodge truck entering the facility around 9:51 p.m. A person was seen cutting the locks on the units shortly after.
Later that night, a darker-colored Ford Explorer Sport Trac arrived around 11:28 p.m., and video showed James Cumby and a white female, Andrea Haines, exiting the vehicle, loading multiple items from unit W46 into the truck’s bed, and leaving the premises by 11:41 p.m.
Sgt. Henson, responding with the reporting officer, used partial registration details from the video to locate the Ford Sport Trac at Woody Court. The vehicle owner confirmed that Andrea Haines had driven the vehicle the previous night with James Cumby. After being advised of her Miranda rights, Andrea Haines admitted to driving Cumby to the storage units under the pretense of picking up items, helping him load belongings, and stated the units were already unlocked upon arrival.
She said they returned to Woody Court, where Cumby unloaded the items into the living room before storing them in an outdoor shed. Boettcher later took Cumby to a homeless camp at Green Acres cemetery early on February 12 with no items remaining in the shed.
With consent from the vehicle owner, officers searched the shed and recovered a Dyna Glo kerosene heater and a storage tote identified by one of the renters (via FaceTime) as his stolen property from unit W46, along with a Champion generator believed to belong to the renter of the other unit that was broken into. The other renter’s items were returned to him (except missing movies), and the generator was collected as evidence.
Later on February 12, officers located James Cumby during a traffic stop on Lantana Rd. in a black Ford F150. After being detained and Mirandized, Cumby admitted to being at the storage units but blamed the owner of the first truck caught on camera. The truck owner, interviewed after the arrests, claimed Cumby had accompanied him to his own storage unit that night to help load items, briefly walked off, and then rejoined him before they left.
Surveillance also showed the truck owner returning to the facility early on February 12 around 5:58 a.m., driving past and looking into the open burglarized units.
Ultimately, only James Cumby and Andrea Haines were arrested and charged with the burglary, as they were the individuals directly captured on video entering the units and removing items.
The truck owner is unnamed as they were not arrested or charged.
