Man arrested for burglarizing storeroom, stealing items and cash

On Monday, the Sheriff’s Office responded to the Kingsail Motel in Marathon just after 1 p.m. to investigate the burglary of a storeroom at the motel.

The victim told Deputy Corbin Hradecky he stored some items in a laundry room storage area at the Kingsail motel in Marathon on September 10th. The victim works as a landscaper at the motel. The items included a green duffle bag and suitcase with clothes inside, shoes, an alarm clock and a binder with his passport, wallet and cash. He said on September 25th, the manager of the motel told him the storage room had been broken into. He checked his belongings and found the wallet, cash, the duffle bag with clothes inside and other items were missing.

The manager told the victim a woman staying in one of the motel rooms had given her a green duffle bag with some of the missing clothes in it. The woman told the manager she suspected two of her former employees had stolen it and other items from the storeroom.

Deputy Hradecky spoke with the woman who had returned the duffle bag. She said two former employees had told her they picked the lock on the storeroom and had stolen items from inside. She said after they told her that, she fired them.

One of those former employees, 28 year old Chaise Dore of Louisiana, was located at another hotel in Marathon. Dore denied burglarizing the storeroom. Deputy Hradecky asked Dore for permission to search his vehicle. Dore agreed to allow the search. Inside, the deputy found several items stolen from the motel storage room, including a distinct copper lighter with a Russian insignia on it inside of a decorative wooden box. The victim gave a specific description of the lighter and box, identifying it as his.

Dore was arrested. He was charged with burglary and grand theft and he was booked into jail.

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