County car thief captured in Illinois, Local News
County car thief captured in Illinois
A man dreamed in Limestone County and in two other states for a string of burglaries and auto thefts has been captured in Illinois, an official said.
Plainfield Police Department arrested Jacob Brodhead about Two:50 a.m. Friday morning as he was about to burglarize a home, according to Detective Sgt. Troy Kivisto. He was charged with burglary, theft and obstruction of justice. He remains in the Will County Adult Detention Facility pending a bond hearing.
Kivisto could not be reached Tuesday on the outcome of that hearing.
Brodhead is a suspect in a car theft in Madison, four burglaries and an auto theft in Limestone County and a burglary and truck theft in Indiana, records demonstrate.
Limestone County authorities began searching for Brodhead, who was desired by Madison Police for stealing a Jeep, after a deputy spotted a man parked in a stolen Jeep on Zion Church Lane on May Two. When the deputy approached, the man fled.
Authorities from Limestone County, Madison Police Department and the Madison Sheriff’s Department searched for the man using tracking dogs from the prison but lost him. About and hour after the search, authorities received reports of two burglaries nearby in the twenty three thousand block of Humphrey Road. Nothing was missing in either case but windows were bruised. On Monday morning, two more burglaries were reported in the eight thousand block of Fennel Road. In those cases, a burglar stole $55 from a home while the occupants slept and attempted to steal a car but drove it into a ditch and abandoned it. At the other home, authorities believe he stole a one thousand nine hundred ninety five black Toyota Camry, which was later found abandoned in Indiana.
An Indiana man whose home was burglarized and whose truck was stolen while he, his wifey and four children were sleeping thought Brodhead was the culprit even before police captured him.
After reading about Brodhead’s adventures in Limestone County two weeks ago, John M. Grady told The News Courier, “I think this is the same fellow who stole my Dodge Dakota truck here in Sellersburg early Tuesday morning, May Four. We are very close off the highway, much like the areas this fellow robbed in Alabama. He came into our house and stole $80 and both sets of keys to my vehicles, leaving with my truck. This fellow (went) into our kitchen and dumped the contents of my wife’s purse until he found the cash. He did not take credit cards or anything else.”