By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
Police are looking for a man who was seen on surveillance video breaking into a central Salina church.
Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester said this morning that several calls were received at approximately 7:10 a.m. Wednesday from residents in the 900 block of Pearl Avenue about a person wandering through backyards. The person was described as a Black male in his late teens or 20s, with short black hair, with no shirt on and wearing black pants.
At 9 a.m. Wednesday, officers were dispatched to the nearby First Baptist Church, 843 Lewis Avenue, for the report of a burglary, Forrester said.
Church personnel reported that a Black male who matched the earlier description from Pearl Avenue was seen on surveillance video in the church parking lot at approximately 2:30 a.m. Wednesday. Then, approximately an hour later, the same man was seen entering the church through a window. Once he was in the church vestibule, the man found a key that enabled him to enter the church sanctuary. He then left the church a few minutes later.
Forrester said that church personnel reported that the only thing missing was the key.