By OLIVIA BERGMEIER
Salina Post
Between Wednesday, Feb. 7 and Friday, Feb. 9, two suspects burglarized an unoccupied house in the 4700 block of North Woodward Road and stole almost more than $1,000 in frozen beef and pork.
The house is an unoccupied structure in rural Saline County, but after the burglary last week, the owner installed security cameras for surveillance.
The Saline County Sheriff's Office began investigating the case over the weekend. At 5 a.m. on Monday, one of the suspects visited the same house and stole another $400 in various household items.
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"The security system was alerted to a presence at the property, and by the time we got there, there were no suspects on scene," said Sheriff's Office Capt. Jim Hughes. "The house had been entered again and an internet modem, a security camera and a suitcase with books were stolen. The loss of all that property is reported to be about $425."
Before the now-identified and arrested suspect, 54-year-old Wallace Holmes took down the security camera, Hughes said it captured footage that led to a search warrant for a residence in central Salina.
Deputies then conducted the search warrant on Monday and found items from the victim's property in the residence in Salina where Holmes and 51-year-old Andrea Randecker live.
The pair were not present while deputies searched, but deputies found them later and arrested them for the burglaries.
Hughes said deputies charged Holmes with two counts of burglary, theft, damage to property and trespass, while requested charges for Randecker include one count of burglary, theft and trespass.
"While deputies were arresting Randecker, she was found to be in possession of methamphetamine and personal paraphernalia, so she picked up those two additional charges," Hughes said."