MILLINOCKET, Maine — With the arrest Saturday of a local man, police might have solved five of the two dozen or so burglaries that have occurred over the past six months, according to Police Chief Donald Bolduc.
Seth Michael Johansen, 19, of Millinocket was charged Saturday with five counts of Class B burglary — one count for each of five residential burglaries reported since October. He was being held Monday at the Penobscot County Jail in Bangor on $500 bail, Bolduc said Monday.
At least $4,000 in electronic goods, jewelry, cash and other items were reported stolen in the five burglaries. Several stolen items have been found but not yet returned to their owners pending the disposition of the criminal case, Bolduc said.
Detective Jon Glidden applied for a warrant charging Johansen with the burglaries after a homeowner provided police with a partial identification of a burglary suspect that appeared to be a match with Johansen, Bolduc said.
Johansen also confessed to several other burglaries once he was interviewed by police, according to Glidden and Bolduc.
Bolduc said almost two dozen commercial and residential burglaries have been reported in Millinocket over the last six months, including about a dozen business burglaries.
Most of them have occurred at poorly lit businesses in low traffic areas, Bolduc said.
Anyone with information about the business burglaries is asked to call police at 723-9731. All calls will be kept confidential.
$500.00 bail? LOL…he’ll be gone…
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The drug addicts will walk into your home for less than $5.
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Good for you. I hope that many more people will install cameras to deter them. Some will come in looking for cigarettes, prescriptions. A neighbor told me to never let anyone know if you have any prescriptions in the house. I told HIM there are none in my house.
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The headline is misleading. a real “man” does not steal!
Yup….another one….This doesn’t surprise me at all! You have got to love our Juvenile system that gets them ready for the big house!
Desperate and downtrodden people will steal hoping they will will get sent to prison because most of them know that it provides for a far better life than what they presently have outside of prison. I am amazed at the sheer volume of desperate people we have living in Augusta, our State and our Country. And our prisons and jails are already filled to max with 2.5 million people, the highest per capita of any country in the world. Yes, we certainly are the “land of opportunity” for the wealthy and for the people who have jobs – but the “land of despair” for those who don’t. And now I would like to hear from all of the “heartless” people of those who post commentary on these forums.
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I can see by your response that you don’t understand or wish to understand – just how desperate someone can get. Do you know how many people commit suicide every day because they are so desperate? Have you heard of people who have a variety of mental illnesses like schizophrenia? Do you have any grasp of how many people live in terrible physical pain? Do you any idea of how many walk the streets and have no place to stay, nothing to eat, no family who cares, and nothing to look forward to? Open your eyes my friend and perhaps you can understand just what desperation is – and why prison is such a wonderful place for many of societies downtrodden. Drugs give many of them temporary relief but how do you get drugs without committing a crime? I don’t know everything but I have studied crime and punishment for five years at the University of Maine and believe the contents of my textbooks that were written by people who have spent their lifetime trying to make people like you and I understand.
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Try letting your mind think about the beach rather than the grain of sand on the beach. You may then better understand what I am trying to say. Not everyone does blah, blah, blah. We all know, or should know, there are exceptions to anything anyone can say. Another way of putting it is – try thinking and looking at things globally rather than seeing everything from your back yard view. Or are you just trying to be controversial because that is your nature?
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We need jobs.
I am surprised that no one hasn’t been shot,,,, yet…..!
At least he will be ready for the big house!!
Why is it that the BDN MUST print a picture of Roxanne in every article that they can somehow manage to spin her name into? Yet a picture of this criminal is no where to be found? Nothing like a picture to say wow I saw that guy in front of my neighbors house last week… the same night it got robbed!! An eye witness placing the jerk on the street where the robbery occurred… but no we’d rather save the picture slots for Roxanne!!