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Toy store burglary ends with suspect in trash bin
Aug. 14, 2015 12:52 pm
CEDAR RAPIDS - A Cedar Rapids man's failed getaway from a burglary landed him in a trash bin and police custody.
According to a Linn County Attorney's Office criminal complaint, police were called to Toys R Us around 3:30 a.m. Friday for a burglary alarm. Responding officers found 33-year-old Danny A. Akers in a garbage receptacle.
Police said Akers had stolen more than $1,000 worth of merchandise from the toy store and attempted to exit through a chute, which deposited him in the trash bin.
Akers was arrested and faces charges of third-degree burglary and second-degree theft.
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