‘Bad Hair Bandit’ suspect involved in Sheriff’s Dept. burglary in 2004

Jason Fox, of Williamsburg, (aka, the "Bad Hair Bandit") is escorted from the Williamsburg city police station by Chief of Police Wayne Bird last Friday.

Friday’s arrest of Jason D. Fox, also known as the Bad Hair Bandit, wasn’t his first run-in with the law in Whitley County.

Fox was one of two people charged with burglarizing the Whitley County Sheriff’s Department satellite office on April 2, 2004, confirmed Williamsburg Police Chief Wayne Bird, who investigated both the burglary and the bank robbery case.

On May 2, 2005, Circuit Judge Jerry Winchester sentenced Fox and Donnie Grubb, who were both 24 at the time, to nine years in prison, and ordered them to pay $5,369 in reimbursements for breaking into the sheriff’s satellite office.

As part of his plea agreement, Fox was able to count time he served after a federal court conviction for being in possession of a gun while under a domestic violence order toward his sentence in that case.

During a 2004 hearing, Bird testified Fox and Grubb were suspects right from the beginning after having been arrested by then Sheriff’s Detective Chuck Davis about two weeks prior the break-in, and that during the break-in the bulk of the evidence in that case was taken along with a fingerprint card belonging to Fox.

During the 2004 hearing, Bird also testified that Fox admitted to committing several recent burglaries, including the one at the sheriff’s satellite office, and that he implicated Grubb as well.

Bird testified that Fox told him he was driving the night of the break-in, and that he dropped Grubb off near the office, and that Grubb was the one that broke into it.