Juneau Police Department officers arrested a suspect in the Monday morning burglary of the Bullwinkle’s Pizza Parlor in the Mendenhall Valley, JPD announced. <\/p>\n
Willis “Billy” Austin Ehlers, 37, was arrested Wednesday afternoon and charged with felony second-degree burglary, felony second degree theft, and felony third-degree criminal mischief, said Lt. Krag Campbell in a news release. After allegedly breaking into Bullwinkle’s, police say Ehlers exited out the back of the store and ran into the woods with $1,500 in stolen goods. Officers searching the area found clothing and the stolen merchandise there.<\/p>\n
“There was information obtained from the clothing that led back to him,” Campbell said.<\/p>\n
Ehlers allegedly stole a number of consumer electronic items from a vending machine. After getting a warrant, JPD detectives located and detained him near the 4200 block of Mendenhall Loop Road. Ehlers was taken to the police station, questioned, charged and taken to Lemon Creek Correctional Center.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes all the pieces fall in real quick and you make an arrest. Our concern for someone breaking in like this is that it’s a serious crime,” Campbell said. “Usually people who behave in this manner continue to do it. The longer you take, they’re gonna hit a place in another couple days. It was great work by the officers and detectives.”<\/p>\n
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