CLEAR LAKE – Police in Clear Lake arrested a man for allegedly burglarizing the apartment of a couple who had been out of town.
According to Clear Lake police, just before 6:00 pm on Friday January 31, 2014, Chris Speaker and Lori Slater called the Clear Lake Police Department from their apartment at 601 12th Ave N in Clear Lake to report that they had returned home to find that their apartment had been burglarized. When officers arrived they found numerous items were missing from the apartment. Speaker and Slater explained that they had not been home since the 18th of the month and did not know when the burglary may have occurred.
Officers began speaking to other residents of the apartment to see if anyone had seen anything. A resident from another apartment told officers he had seen another resident, 49 year old Robert Allen Rollefson, removing items from the apartment on the day of January 18th.
Rollefson was located near a residence in the 1200 block of N 6th Street a short time later. When officers attempted to apprehend him he ran and then stopped. He resisted officers when they attempted to take him into custody. He was transported to the Cerro Gordo County Jail were he was booked for Burglary in the 3rd degree, a class D Felony and Interference with Official Acts, a simple misdemeanor.
Clear Lake Officers executed a search warrant at Rollefson’s apartment where they recovered stolen property belonging to Chris Speaker and Lori Slater. Rollefson indicated that some of the property was removed to two other residences in Clear Lake. Search warrants were executed at these residences and property taken in the burglary was found at one.
SUBJECT IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY
