Man Busted for St. Paul Burglaries That Had Residents Living in Fear for Weeks
It started with an 85-year-old woman alone in her Highland Park home on a Tuesday afternoon.
A man walked into her house, grabbed her car keys, and headed straight for the garage. She had seconds to react. She closed the garage door before he could drive off, and he fled on foot.
That one act of quick thinking set off a nearly 24-hour chase across two cities, with law enforcement tracking the same suspect through multiple burglaries, a vehicle ramming, a K-9 search, and a foot pursuit, before finally catching him hiding in a closet inside a stranger’s porch.
This Was Not a Random Crime
The suspect, 23, did not hit just one home. Between Tuesday and Wednesday, he was linked to burglaries in Highland Park, Merriam Park, and West Seventh, three different St. Paul neighborhoods in a matter of hours…