NEWS RELEASE
Van Buren County Sheriff’s Department
INCIDENT TYPE: Home Invasion
DATE/TIME: 4/28/2011 0318hrs
LOCATION: 46000blk 86th Ave
REPORT#: 2675-11
VICTIMS: 74yo Male and 73yo Female from the Decatur area
SUSPECT: 35yo Male from the Kalamazoo area
ALCOHOL/DRUGS: The suspect was possibly under the influence of numerous prescriction medication
INFORMATION: Sheriff Dale R. Gribler reports that deputies and other local law enforcement officers were dispatched to a home invasion in progress in which the caller had the suspect at gunpoint. When officers arrived, the caller secured his firearm and the suspect was taken into custody without further incident. From interviews with the victims, it was determined that a set of keys were taken several days ago, and that the suspect used these keys to enter into the residence. Several prescription medicines had also gone missing over the last few days, and the suspect was caught by the caller stealing medicine out of the caller's bathroom. The suspect in an acquaintance of the victims.
LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION: Investigating Deputies arrested the suspect for Home Invasion, Possession of Analouges, and Larceny. Suspect was lodged at the Van Buren Co Jail.
INVESTIGATING OFFICER: Deputy Raymond W. Hochsprung VBCSO
ASSISTING OFFICERS/AGENCIES: Officer Shawn Poole of Decatur PD and Tribal Officer Corey Collins of the Pokagon Tribal Police
SUPERVISOR CONTACT: Please contact the on duty Sgt. @ (269) 657-3101 or Operations Lt. Robert Kirk @ (269) 657-2006 email: kirkr@vbco.org