Cops: Burglar jumps off roof into custody

A man spotted climbing into a second floor window of a Wilson home before jumping down ended up landing in handcuffs, Wilson police said.

Officers were called at 5:32 a.m. to a residence in the 1800 block of Lehigh Street, where someone reported a burglar entering through a second floor bathroom window and then going to a third floor attic.

Officers saw a man exit a window onto the third floor roof and then jump onto the second floor roof. The man then jumped to the ground, where he was taken into custody and identified as Tariq Johnson, 21, of the 1000 block of Washington Street.

Johnson was charged with burglary and attempted theft.

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said.

The next day, police publicized video surveillance footage of the incidents. At 8 p.m. that day, Brinkley, Cirillo, Watson and Moser came to the police station, identified themselves and admitted to the crimes, police said.

According to police, they told officers:

At 2 a.m. Dec. 15, after drinking at a Main Street bar, Brinkley, Cirillo and Watson left Moser at the bar and walked down Main Street. Brinkley knocked a snowman’s head off its body in the 600 block while Watson punched the snowman in the middle of its body.

As the group continued down Main Street, Cirillo knocked the heads off two snowmen in the 500 block.

A short time later, one of the three phoned Moser and told him what they had done. Moser suggested they collect and take the snowmen’s heads to avoid being caught.

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them. Prosecutors said several hundred rare items worth more than $8 million were taken in a scheme investigators believed dated back to the 1990s.

Authorities said last year that one of the items stolen, a Geneva Bible published in 1615, was returned to the library after it was traced to the American Pilgrim Museum in Leiden, about 45 miles from Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

— The Associated Press