Sonny Lamberth was back working in the field Monday after catching an Albany man stealing a $1,300 radiator from another nearly new John Deere tractor Saturday morning.
"I told him don't move, don't take another step, course he didn't listen to me," he said.
He got a good description of 21-year-old Brondy Jackson, and called Investigators who just as quickly started checking Albany recycling centers.
"By him following up as quick as he did," said Mitchell County Sheriff W. E. Bozeman.
Nearly 10 minutes after stopping at Southeastern Aluminum Recycling, they got a call from the recycler alerting them Jackson was there with another man trying to sell the scrap. When the deputy pulled in Jackson took off, nearly hitting Investigator Kevin Sellers.
"The officer didn't have anywhere to go he was pinned kind of between the two cars," said Bozeman.
Sellers fired one shot, hitting Jackson in the arm. The recycler called Albany Police as the two chased out of the parking lot, along Broad and eventually to Oglethorpe and Loftus where Jackson ran the red light striking Mary James Ingram's Kia and then spinning into Mamie Mitchell's car waiting in the turn lane at the light.
"The officer had to make a call and he made the choice to pursue," said Bozeman.
In this case, the GBI says the investigators' actions were justified.When copper prices soared last fall Southeastern Aluminum added one more safety procedure to keep law enforcement in the loop. At the end of every week, they send an activity report to law enforcement across southwest Georgia with the names and amount of metal people have recycled. 
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