Burglar goes on twine reducing spree at golfing course clubhouse, inflicting over $50K in harm

WATERLOO, Ill. – A suspected burglar went on a twine-slicing frenzy and close down one of the St. Louis location’s preferred golfing publications — Annbriar in Waterloo, Illinois.

Cameron Crockarell, of Granite City, can be a suspect in at least 4 other current golfing route burglaries. It appears he was looking to disable any alarms or surveillance cameras via reducing all the wires, said Annbriar well-known supervisor Russ Nobbe.

Inside the clubhouse basement, nearly every telecom cord in sight was reduced — tv, phone, and internet. Hundreds of wires within the utility room distribution containers were also reduced.

Still, the silent burglar alarm became triggered about 2: forty a.M. Saturday.

Sheriff’s deputies stuck Crockarell inside the automobile parking space, stated Sheriff Neal Rohlfing. He had yet to make it into the clubhouse full of a pinnacle of the road golf tools and garb. He simplest had boxes of frozen chicken wings and warm dogs from the outside smokehouse, Nobbe stated.

Power and the burglar alarm had been restored however there’s up to $50,000 in harm, almost all from cut wires.

“We didn’t virtually lose something in the robbery. It’s just extra the harm of all of the wires he cut. The method he took to get into the constructing creates numerous damage; the phone, the net, all that form of stuff that we rely on,” said Nobbe.

Nobbe delivered, “I guess the largest factor is just every other setback with the weather we’ve been having and now this. It’s the type of like we’re all aggravating to get taking place the golf season. We’ve got an excellent body of workers. We want to get busy on providing first-rate golf to everybody and having amusing. That’s what we do fine.”

In spite of the harm, Annbriar could be golfing equipped this weekend if the weather cooperates.

Crockarell, 50, was charged with housebreaking and property harm. His bond becomes set at $two hundred,000. Investigators stated they are searching at whether merchandise found in the vehicle may additionally have been stolen from at least 4 other guides in latest weeks.