Burglaries widespread during hunting season

Rusk and Chippewa county deputies are investigating a rash of burglaries to cabins and businesses, many of them reported to have taken place during hunting season.

There was no official speculation as to whether perpetrators might be the same, but one business owner pointed out the burglar who broke in his door with an alarm sign had to be dumb.

Jim Andros at All Seasons Sport Shop in Holcombe said he got to his place shortly before Chippewa deputies after his alarm went off Sunday night. “They climbed the fence, broke the door, and took nothing,” he said, adding there would have been nothing to take because he doesn’t leave cash and coins around at night.

A lumberyard near his place was burglarized, he said, and there were footprints in the snow.

Dumb burglars who risked a lot for very little cash, broken doors, and no damage seemed to be characteristic of last week’s break-ins.

Mike Villapando at J & M Marine just at the county line on Wis. 27 south said he was gone for a long weekend and when he got back Tuesday he found the door broken and a small amount of cash taken, but no other damage.

The Magic Salons owned by Dawn Brisky was burglarized a week ago Sunday. Dawn said she left late in the evening Sunday and reported the burglary the next day. The burglar apparently used a crowbar on the door, wrecked nothing, and took stereo and very little cash.

At Rivers Edge in Rusk County, a burglary was reported Sunday night, Nov. 29, or early Monday, Nov. 30. A big screen television was taken along with a very small amount of cash.

According to the Rusk County Sheriff’s Dispatch log:

The Glen Flora Housing Authority on the afternoon of Nov. 30 reported an attempted break-in to the maintenance room. The lock was “all messed up” and the door had pry marks.

A Sergeant Street resident in Sheldon reported at 1 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 30, that a television and guns had been stolen while the homeowner was in the hospital.

Possibly stolen property was found and reported Monday morning, Nov. 30, at the south side of the North Fork Creek Bridge by County P and County B, Glen Flora.

Weyerhaeuser School reported the morning of Nov. 30 that there were pry marks and a screen out on a school window but no one got in because the window was locked.

Kathleen Pokel, W1203 Meadow Dam Road, Bruce, reported to deputies on Nov. 24 that her cabin was broken into since Oct. 24. Entry was gained by breaking a window.

Flambeau School reported on Nov. 25 that someone had broken into the main office of the school and two other offices. There was some vandalism but at the time it was not known if anything was missing.

On Nov. 19, a resident on County D, Conrath, reported to deputies that someone stole a .357 pistol and a 300 Magnum gun. There were marks on his door, he told deputies.

Karl Elsner reported on Nov. 19 that he was missing six hogs and an ATV from his farm on Right of Way Road, Weyerhaeuser.