Sheriff releases suspect identities in two Warren County incidents

Last updated: June 20, 2020

Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace provided additional information on two unrelated incidents that occurred earlier this week.

Wednesday, deputies were involved in a high-speed chase just after 3 p.m.

A man attempted to ram Deputy Patrick Brown and several bystanders before eluding officers in the Halls Ferry Road area. He was subsequently arrested by Vicksburg police officers on Wisconsin Avenue after they responded to a call of a suspicious person in the area.

The man refused to provide any information and was booked into the county jail as John Doe. A check of his fingerprints through the national database revealed him to be Ryan Douglas Engels, 34, of Auburn, Alabama. He was charged with felony eluding and released on a $7,500 bond set by Justice Court Judge James Jefferson.

Sheriff Pace did not say why Engels was driving erratically, but said he plans to review the dashboard camera footage with district attorney Ricky Smith to determine if additional charges should be filed against Engels.

Thursday, deputies responded to Mississippi Highway 3 in the northern part of the county for a report of suspicious persons.

Deputy Michael Raney detained two individuals near the wood yard at International Paper. A check on the National Crime Information Computer revealed both were wanted on theft charges from the state of Georgia.

Pace identified the suspects as Todd Steven Brooks, 26, of Ithaca, New York, and Jennifer Nicole McIntyre, 40, of Cartersville, Georgia.

One of the Georgia theft charges was in connection with a 2003 Ford F-250 found stuck on property near the Yazoo River in Warren County by Deputy Eric Proctor. It took a farm tractor to pull the truck out of the muck.

Video footage also revealed the two had broken into a hunting camp in the area.

Brooks and McIntyre now face charges of burglary in Warren County as well as numerous charges in Georgia.