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Police Arrest Two Men in College Hill Break-Ins

April 30, 2010
  • Jamie K. Wilson
Jamie K. Wilson

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By Eyewitness News (WICHITA, Kan.)

Two men are charged with nearly two dozen counts in connection to a string of burglaries at several College Hill family homes.

Twenty-eight year-old Jamie K. Wilson and 48-year-old Steve McMillan are facing 9 counts of burglary and 7 counts of theft. Authorities say they targeted houses for sale during the daytime in the College Hill area.

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By Megan Strader (WICHITA, Kan.)

Still shook up, she doesn't want us to use her name, but one College Hill woman is willing to tell us her story.

"I came home from work and I didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. My son and I went out to play and when my husband came home, about 5:30, he asked me where the computer was."

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Burglars got away with more than $3,000 worth of jewelry, electronics and credit cards from the family's home, leaving them shocked and sickened.

"Especially when we saw they had gone through the dresser drawers in our room. That's when you know your just like, 'eew.' They were in our room and they were walking around our house!"

Police say burglars broke into six other homes in the College Hill area.  All of the houses were for sale.  In two cases, a police report says the burglars got inside by stealing the key from realtors' lock boxes hanging on the doors.  Other homeowners told Eyewitness News they believe their lock boxes were tampered with.

"They told us they were indestructible and the only way you could get into one of those lock boxes was if you had a code, or they said if you threw it on the ground and took a sledge hammer and were just pounding it over and over. So I'm shocked that's how they got in."

Thanks to surveillance video from a Wichita Kwik Shop and the use of the family's stolen credit card, police were able to get a picture of a car.

That led to the arrest of two men in connection with one of the College Hill burglaries. Police say they're still investigating whether the men could have been involved in any of the others.

"I'm just thankful that we weren't in the house when they did try to come by."

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