Equipment stolen from Waupaca County barns
Bradley J. Miller, 41, Marion, is charged in Waupaca County Circuit Court with three counts of burglary, four counts of felony bail jumping and one count each of criminal damage to property, possession of methamphetamine and possession of drug paraphernalia.
The break-ins occurred at sheds and barns in the town of Dupont over the course of a week beginning on Feb. 7.
Miller is accused of damaging a catalytic converter while allegedly trying and failing to steal it on Feb. 7.
On Feb. 13, Waupaca County Deputy Steve Long and Marion Police Chief Kevin Schultz responded to a burglary in progress on State Highway 110 in Dupont.
As they were traveling south on State 110, they saw a black pickup truck turn west onto Hidde Road and stopped the vehicle.
According to the criminal complaint, the driver, identified as Miller, told the officers he had just been to the house of “an old high school buddy” who had given him permission two years earlier that he could take whatever he wanted.
When Long asked him what he had taken, Miller pointed to a vintage red and white Texaco oil can and some wiring in the back of his truck, according to the complaint.
The person on State 110 who reported the burglary told investigators he did not know anyone named Bradley Miller and never gave anyone permission to take things off his property.
He also said he had been installing a trail camera that day due to a burglary the previous night.
He noticed a black pickup parked behind the barn. The vehicle took off when he called 911.
Waupaca County deputies executed search warrants of a storage trailer in Marion belonging to Miller and his pickup and reported finding a number of items that had been stolen, according to the complaint.