News Follow Up - September 23, 2008

 

Several homes in new town Valmeyer were left without power for a couple hours Sunday afternoon. Valmeyer firefighters helped spread the word to folks and to help locate the source of the outage.     – photo by Carol Floarke

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a burglary Monday afternoon at the Herman Stumpf residence on D Road in rural Columbia. Entry was gained using a door and a window. “Initially, all that was reported missing was some money,” said Monroe County Sheriff’s Dan Kelley.

Three St. Clair County Men Arrested In Columbia And Charged With Vehicular Burglary

Jason McArthur, 20, and John Berkbigler, 19, of Cahokia, and Andrew Todd, 20, of Dupo were arrested Tuesday morning at 2:18 a.m., by Columbia Police Officers patrolling the Pines subdivision on D Road on the west end of Columbia. A Columbia police officer noticed two suspicious individuals walking through the subdivision. A second officer responded to the scene and located another suspicious male in a pickup truck parked on D Road. After the officers noticed two cars that had been burglarized in the area, they took all three suspects into custody.

McArthur was charged with two counts of burglary to a motor vehicle, one count of possession of burglary tools and one count of obstructing justice. Berkbigler and Todd were each charged with two counts of burglary to a motor vehicle.

“We will be applying for additional charges of burglary to a motor vehicle against one of the three suspects related to crimes that occurred in Columbia during the month of September,” said Columbia Police Chief Joe Edwards.

All three individuals were transported to the Monroe County Jail to await their arraignment.