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Burglary charges filed

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Prosecutors in Waupaca County filed four felony cases within four days against Ryan S. Lubinski, 39, Waupaca.

Lubinski was charged with attempted burglary, attempted theft and criminal damage to property on Oct. 14.

That same day, he was charged with burglary and criminal damage in another incident, as well as with burglary and two counts of criminal damage to property in a third incident.

On Oct, 17, Lubinski was charged with two counts of burglary, and two counts each of felony theft, possession of burglarious tools and criminal damage.

Police began investigating the first in a series of crimes targeting local businesses on April 24 when Niemuth’s Steak and Chop Shop on Redfield Street reported the theft of $83 in rolled coins.

The owner told Waupaca Police Officer Kyle Holden that she believed the burglar entered the store by prying open the back door. The coins were taken from a cash register at the deli counter.

On April 25, the owner found a crowbar near a shed on the property. Police entered the crowbar into evidence.
On the morning of May 23, Waupaca Police Officer Matthew Batte was dispatched to Premier Bank on Furman Drive.

When Batte arrived, he found that the bottom doors of the ATM machine had been pried open.

The branch manager told Batte that he believed the person who damaged the ATM had been unable to gain access to the safe within the machine where the money was kept.

According to the criminal complaint, security video showed a man walking down a grassy hill toward the bank. The man appeared to have a goatee and receding hairline.

The suspect is seen prying open the ATM doors, then trying to pry something inside the ATM. The man walks away from the bank, then returns, the complaint says.

When he returned to the ATM he also had what appeared to be a hammer with him,” Batte reported. “He immediately started hitting the ATM with the hammer and I could see pieces of the ATM flying off as he struck it.”
Detective Sgt. Bret Rodenz collected fingerprints and a DNA sample from the ATM.

On May 28, The Waupaca Thrift Store on East Fulton Street reported a burglary.

Officers Holden, Nicole Hahn and Sgt. Rodenz responded. They reported finding damage to the frame and trim of the basement-level back door off Cooper Street, a samaged safe located in the office and a camera found lying on the floor.

“Pieces of the trim were later found on the east side of the building in the weeds next to an orange colored hammer and a black handled screwdriver,” the complaint says. “The safe, which was bolted to the floor in the southeast office area, was pried open and significantly damaged with the safe insulation all crumbled on the floor.”

Officers also found clothing and a cigarette butt in the store.

Although the store did not have any functioning cameras, police were able to view video taken from a security camera at city hall that captured images from the front of the store, as well as the pathway that leads from East Fulton to Cooper Street.

The video surveillance shows a suspect walking around the area of the store from 3-7 p.m. May 25. He is seen walking up and down the path along the east side of the building

On May 29, Waupaca police responded to a complaint that a man reached behind the counter at the Amoco station on West Fulton Street and stole lottery tickets.

The suspect allegedly scratched the tickets, then cashed them in at the BP station across the street from the Amoco station.

Farmington burglaries

Lubinsk is also accused of breaking into two homes located on Oakland Drive on May 21 and on Nelson Road on May 26 in the town of Farmington.

Entry into the Oakland Drive home was made by breaking a front window.

Waupaca County Deputy Wayde Ernstmeyer and Deputy Adam Labrosse and his K9 partner Dom found and followed footprints from the home on Oaklsand Drive out to a wooded area at the edge of a field on Nelson Road, where they lost sight of the tracks.

On May 26, Deputy Brenden Muske responded to thee burglary complaint at a cabin on Oakland Drive. Among the items reported stolen were an ATV, a coffee maker, a folding knife, a skinning knife, a tanned coyote fur and other miscellaneous things.

Lubinski allegedly used the shower while at the cabin, rode the ATV into the city of Waupaca, then returned to the cabin on the ATV where he spent another night.

“Ryan stated he was not completely sure of what he all did or took due to his altered state from using methamphetamine and alcohol,” the complaint says.

Lubinski’s arrest

On May 28, Waupaca police officers and county deputies attempted to take Lubinski into custody after he was seen running through Riverview Park on Cooper Street. He avoided arrest.

The following day, Lubinski was arrested in a wooded area near the Amoco station on West Fulton Street, then booked into the Waupaca County jail, where he remains on a probation hold.

Lubinski was placed on three years of probations after being convicted of one misdemeanor count of unlawful phone use–threatening harm and three counts of misdemeanor bail jumpng on March 4.

His other prior convictions include battery and disorderly conduct as acts of domestic abuse, failure to report to jail, possession of methamphetamine, retail theft and credit card fraud.

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