Suspect arrested in weekend break-in

By Randa Wagner -

A local man is in cus­tody after break­ing into Math­ews Marathon in Card­ing­ton over the weekend.

Card­ing­ton Act­ing Police Chief Robert Hus­ton said an acti­vated alarm alerted employee Mark Math­ews and author­ites about 4 a.m. Sun­day morn­ing to a break in.

They arrived to dis­cover the last orig­i­nal win­dow in the build­ing bro­ken and a few items ‘not worth the thief’s time’ miss­ing. Hus­ton said the win­dow was backed by bars, so the sus­pect reached his arm between them to remove the items.

Through an inves­ti­ga­tion with offi­cers and indi­vid­u­als a sus­pect was ‘quickly iden­ti­fied’ Mon­day and arrested.

“We had so much evi­dence against him that when we talked to him, he tried to deny it,” Hus­ton said, “but once we showed him what we had, he signed a full confession.”

A male about 20 years old, whose name is being with­held pend­ing charges, was arrested on charges of break­ing and enter­ing, theft and vandalism.

Hus­ton said the sus­pect just moved to the area two weeks ago from out of state, with a com­pletely clean record – up until Monday.

“That’s usu­ally not the case,” Hus­ton noted.

He cred­its his team with thor­ough work on this and recent break-ins in the area.

“I have a good group of police offi­cers who dili­gently work a case until it’s com­plete,” Hus­ton said of his offi­cers. “You hire good peo­ple — they do a good job and make every­body look good.”

For the sus­pect, the gain was small for the dam­age done and charges he faces.

“He only took a cou­ple things,” Hus­ton said. “It really wasn’t worth all the trou­ble he’s in now.”

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