Alleged burglar caught smoking in home
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By the Lincoln Journal Star
Police responding to a call of a burglary in progress Tuesday morning found the alleged intruder smoking in the living room of the home.
Someone called police at 9:40 a.m. after seeing a man enter through the back door of a mobile home on the 2500 block of Theresa Street, which is off of 27th Street just south of Cornhusker Highway, said Officer Katie Flood.
Jeremiah Magpie, 24, who lives in the same mobile home community, was allegedly sitting on the living room floor, smoking a cigarette when officers arrived, Flood said. Magpie had allegedly pried open the back door.
The resident later said she did not know Magpie, Flood said.
Magpie, who also goes by the name Jeremiah McCarthy, was arrested on suspicion of burglary, but his intentions were not known, Flood said.
Magpie is a level three sex offender with past arrests for terroristic threats, narcotics, strangulation and burglary, Flood said. In 2003, he broke into a woman’s home and touched her inappropriately.
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