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Kosciusko County authorities are investigating several burglaries and thefts reported Monday, mostly in the northern part of the county. A vehicle stolen from St. Joseph County was located in the crime area.
More than a dozen burglaries are believed to have taken place in and around the Fox Run and Woodland Hills subdivisions, near Syracuse. There also were reports of thefts from a Leesburg business and a rural Warsaw residence.
Among the Syracuse-area thefts are two air compressors valued at $425 from a construction trailer at a work site near the intersection of CR 300E and LaPoint Drive. A Millwood Construction employee told police a padlock was cut for the suspect(s) to gain entry to the trailer.
Two Sunset Drive, Syracuse, residents reported thefts - one from vehicles parked in a driveway and one from inside the home where occupants were sleeping.
Roger Fetters told a deputy with the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department that he was missing a garage door opener from his vehicle and change from inside two vehicles. Janie H. Oswald's purse was removed from her kitchen, but it was later located in a neighbor's yard with the contents strewn about.
At least seven other theft reports in northern Kosciusko County are being investigated, as well as a report of a suspicious vehicle parked in a field behind a Wood Acres Drive residence. Police determined the red pickup was reported stolen to St. Joseph County Police on Nov. 25 from a Mishawaka residence.
At Warsaw Farm Center on Ind. 15N, Leesburg, a chain-link fence was cut for access to the property and removal of three John Deere lawn tractors valued at nearly $12,000.
Computer CDs valued at $10,000 were taken from a car parked at the Richard Schroeder residence on North Shagbark Drive, east of Warsaw in the Hickory Estates subdivision.
All of the reports were made between 7:45 a.m. and 6 p.m. Monday.
Anyone with information on any of these burglaries is asked to contact the Kosciusko County Sheriff's Department at 267-5667.
