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City of Duluth - Police Department
Mike Ceynowa, Chief of Police
2030 North Arlington Avenue • Duluth, Minnesota 55811 • www.duluthmn.gov
2030 North Arlington Avenue • Duluth, Minnesota 55811 • www.duluthmn.gov
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Public Information Officer, Mattie Hjelseth at (218) 730-5434 or mhjelseth@duluthmn.gov
Public Information Officer, Mattie Hjelseth at (218) 730-5434 or mhjelseth@duluthmn.gov
DATE: 4/17/2012
SUBJECT: Duluth Man Charged with 2nd Degree Burglary
BY: DPD Public Information Officer Jim Hansen (218) 390-2232
NATURE OF INCIDENT: Duluth Man Charged with 2nd Degree Burglary
CASE NO.: 12061791
INCIDENT DATE: 4/11/2012
INCIDENT TIME: 8:43AM
INCIDENT LOCATION: 1000 block Berwick Court
SUBJECT: Duluth Man Charged with 2nd Degree Burglary
BY: DPD Public Information Officer Jim Hansen (218) 390-2232
NATURE OF INCIDENT: Duluth Man Charged with 2nd Degree Burglary
CASE NO.: 12061791
INCIDENT DATE: 4/11/2012
INCIDENT TIME: 8:43AM
INCIDENT LOCATION: 1000 block Berwick Court
On Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 at 8:43AM Duluth Police took a report of a residential burglary in the 1000 block of Berwick Court. The caller was watching the house for the resident who was out of state and noticed that a window was broken and a side door was open. A box of silverware valued at over $6,000.00 was missing. Nothing else inside of the home appeared disturbed. Duluth Police Crime Scene investigators located a shoe print with a distinct pattern inside of the home.
Duluth Police Property Crimes investigators learned of the burglary and noted the mode of the burglary was similar to that of eight burglaries that Michael Peters, a 45 year old male resident of Duluth had pled guilty to on January 25th, 2012. He was out on bail and awaiting sentencing for those crimes at the time of the Berwick Court burglary. All eight previous burglaries were committed with Peters using knowledge gained through his employment as a newspaper delivery man of the whereabouts of the residential owners on his route. During all of those confessed burglaries Peters stole jewelry and silverware and did not ransack the homes.
On Thursday, April 12th, 2012 the resident of the Berwick Court burglary contacted Duluth Police investigators and told them one of the few people that knew she was going to be out of state was the Custom Cab driver, Michael Peters, who transported her to the airport the day she left town.
On Friday, April 13th, 2012 Duluth Police investigators executed a search warrant on Michael Peter’s residence in the 200 block of West Seventh Street, during which time they located Peters who was wearing a pair of tennis shoes that appeared to match the shoe print left inside of the house on Berwick Court. Peters was taken into custody and lodged at the Saint Louis County Jail pending formal charges of 2nd Degree Burglary.
On Tuesday, April 17th, 2012 the Saint Louis County Attorney’s Officer formally charged Peters for 2nd Degree Burglary. He remains in custody at the Saint Louis County Jail with a bail set at $100,000.
