MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ) – One person has been arrested in connection with a series of recent burglaries in Manitowoc, but investigators are still looking for one or two more suspects.
Captain Jason Freiboth explains what’s been happening in one part of the city in recent weeks.
“Unknown suspects going into unlocked vehicles, unlocked garages and stealing property.”
Freiboth says the affected area is between North 18th Street, west to North 23rd Street and Michigan Avenue, and north to Menasha Avenue.
Following vehicle thefts last week, Freiboth says officers arrested a suspect on an unrelated warrant.
“He was released from the county jail (Tuesday) and then he was implicated in doing more vehicle entries (early Wednesday).”
Freiboth says Manitowoc Police received a call at 1:18 am Wednesday about a suspicious man looking into a patio door in the 1000 block of North 21st Street.
K9 Neko was deployed and quickly found a lead.
“Our K-9 was able to follow a track through the backyard where he then noticed fresh bicycle tire tracks heading in a certain area.”
Freiboth says that information was passed along to other patrol officers, who stopped a 26-year-old Manitowoc man on a bicycle near Holy Family Memorial Hospital on South 21st Street.
He notes the man matched the description provided by the initial caller.
Through questioning, Freiboth says officers learned the man was coming from a residence in the 1800 block of Michigan Avenue and located items in a bag at a residence in that block that linked the 26-year-old to a burglary in the 2000 block of Rankin Street.
The 26-year-old is being held in the Manitowoc County Jail on charges of Burglary, Resisting Arrest, and felony Bail Jumping.
Freiboth encourages residents in the affected area to check their garages and vehicles for any missing items and urges them to always lock all doors.
Anyone with information related to the case or who has been victimized is asked to call Manitowoc Police at 920-686-6551 and reference case #2017-00012285.
