Two suspects were arrested Thursday in connection with a string of overnight burglaries in the Dundalk area that began during the summer, county police said.
Dakota Lee Barnard, 24, and Brooke Michelle Theis, 24, both of the 1900 block of Eastfield Road in Dundalk, were charged with numerous counts of first-, third- and fourth-degree burglary, police said. Police said they were also charged with misdemeanor and felony theft and are being held on no-bail status pending bail review hearings.
With the two arrests, detectives from the Baltimore County Police Burglary Unit were able to clear 11 ongoing burglary cases occurring in the Dundalk area since mid-August.
The first case occurred on Aug. 16, when one of the suspects broke the lock on a sliding door to enter a home on Westfield Road around 2 a.m. while the residents were sleeping, police said.
Police said the last burglary occurred around 6 a.m. Thursday in the 1900 block of Searles Road. Both suspects were arrested later that afternoon, police said, adding that one of them was in possession of stolen items from the Searles Road home earlier that morning.
In all of the cases, police say the burglars either forced entry or entered homes through unlocked entrances. The stolen items included purses, wallets, cash, jewelry, phones, credit cards and in one case, a camera, according to police. Numerous items belonging to the victims were recovered during a search and seizure warrant executed at the suspects’ residence, police said.
–Avéon Laine