by Leann C » Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:28 pm
I just spoke to Det. Hyle. He was actually the detective that worked our case when it happened. As it turns out, they recently caught the guy that was responsible for our break-in. Our burglar's name is Douglass Link and he was responsible for about 25-30 burglaries around the Highlands (Glenmary, Cherokee, Everett, Sherwood, Bonnycastle).
He had been living in a halfway house about a block down from Everett on Glenmary Ave. The Honda Odyssey I mentioned, had been stolen. They said that he normally took checks, ID's, credit cards etc. and that he would take keys and revisit places he had robbed. The odd thing was he would sometimes return items that he had stolen like a class ring (he would leave them on the porch), so the returning of the car with a tank of gas sounds a lot like our burglar.
Det. Hyle has all the info. He said that our guy (who also has warrants in Indiana) is probably going to be in jail for at least 10 years. Very little of the stolen items were recovered.