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Posted March 7, 2007
Suspected criminal turns himself in to Stevens Point police officers
Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers
STEVENS POINT — Who says there's no such thing as an honest criminal?
Police dispatchers were startled by a call Saturday evening from a man who claimed to be staging an unsuccessful break-in at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 1919 Wyatt Ave.
The 24-year-old Stevens Point man said he had been using a metal shovel to batter his way through the church doors when he decided to solicit help from the police. Police officers, who previously were alerted to a suspicious-looking man in the area, encountered the man in the church parking lot, where he had been awaiting their arrival. According to police reports, the man told officers he had hoped to get married in the church.
Upon searching him, officers found a prescription bottle containing marijuana, at which point the man offered to take the police to his home, where he said he was storing more drugs. The man directed officers to his house, where he showed them a cache of marijuana. He then said he was keeping stolen prescription muscle relaxants in a box in his cabinet.
Police eventually arrested him on tentative charges of criminal damage to property, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of prescription drugs.
"It's definitely a weird one," Capt. Kevin Ruder said. "It caught my attention in the morning."
Police Chief Jeff Morris added: "There aren't many arrests like that."
Filed by the Stevens Point Journal
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