By OLIVIA BERGMEIER
Salina Post
A witness at a storage unit in the 1500 block of West Schilling Road reported to Salina Police Department (SPD) officers about a suspect loitering near vehicles by the storage area.
SPD Capt. James Feldman said that just after 11:30 a.m. on Friday, April 12, officers met with the witness, who reported that as he was doing some work around the storage units, he saw an unknown man lingering just outside the storage unit's fencing.
"It looked like there were multiple cars, and it looked like items had been gone through," Feldman said. "It looks like he took multiple items, including license plates, paperwork and a key from another vehicle."
The suspect had rummaged through three cars before leaving.
The witness who reported the suspicious man took a picture of him and showed it to officers, who recognized him as 62-year-old Salina resident Robert Ford.
SPD officers later located Ford between Foxboro and Royal drives in town and found some stolen items from the storage unit.
"He was taken into custody," Feldman said. "He was charged with burglary of vehicles, three counts, and criminal trespassing for being in the fenced area of the storage unit."
The witness reported that Ford had trespassed into the storage unit area, but the burglarized vehicles were outside the fence.
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