19-year-old accused of breaking into Garners Ferry Road T-Mobile store

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– Columbia PD says a 19-year-old is accused of breaking into a Garners Ferry Road T-Mobile store.

Officers say Joshua Porch, Jr. is accused of breaking into the T-Mobile store on Garners Ferry Road on Weds, Feb. 18, and stealing thousands of dollars worth of merchandise.

When a patrol officer attempted a traffic stop, Porch kept driving, and then crashed into the nearby Take 5 Oil Change building.

There was a minor injury.

Porch was arrested, and charged with failure to stop for blue lights & sirens.

He was also charged with burglary (second degree), grand larceny, and malicious injury to real property.