Police: Rock Hill felon arrested again for heroin, stealing from mother

A convicted felon who was recently released from prison for holding his mother against her will to try to get drug money in 2013 has been arrested, this time allegedly for stealing from his mother.

Justin Monroe Peake, 36, was accused of using his mother’s credit cards and taking a lawn mower and other items to a pawn shop, said Detective Keith Dugan of the Rock Hill Police Department. When police were at Peake’s mother’s home Friday, officers found heroin in the bathroom after Peake had told a neighbor about drugs being hidden there, according to a police report.

Peake is being held at the York County jail without bond on charges of heroin possession, receiving stolen goods, financial card fraud and financial card theft.

Peake was released from prison July 1, South Carolina prison officials said, and was on supervised release.

Peake told officers Friday the heroin they found was his and he had bought it Friday morning before his arrest, the report states.

In September 2013, Peake was sentenced to five years after he pleaded guilty to imprisonment and two counts of forgery from his arrest on kidnapping and theft charges against his mother in June 2013, court records show. In that incident, Peake’s mother told police her son held her in the car for two hours as a hostage in an attempt to get money to pay off a drug debt.

Court records show Justin Peake was sentenced to prison in 2011 for assault, trespassing and unlawful use of a car.

This story was originally published September 8, 2015 at 3:25 PM with the headline "Police: Rock Hill felon arrested again for heroin, stealing from mother."