Crime & Safety

Weekend Burglary Suspects Identified

Two adults were charged Monday with committing a burglary in the Lake Park neighborhood. The third suspect is a juvenile.

The adult suspects from a weekend burglary were charged Monday in Racine County Circuit Court and now face a dozen years in prison. A juvenile suspect was also detained.

Mount Pleasant police officers were on patrol in the Lake Park neighborhood early Friday morning when they responded to a call from a homeowner out for a smoke heard a noise in his garage. When the witness went to look, he told officers he saw someone walking away wearing baggie clothes and that a red wallet was missing from the car in the garage.

Fernando Zamora, 21, of Kenosha, and Joshua Titone, 18, also of Kenosha, are charged with single counts each of burglary of a building or dwelling and both men face up to a dozen-and-a-half years imprisonment and up to $25,000 in fines.

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According to the criminal complaint, officers stopped Titone not too far from the scene of the alleged crime. The wallet in question was on the ground near Titone's feet, and he supposedly admitted that he, Zamora and a teenager had gone "car hopping," or breaking into vehicles for money because he was unemployed.

Police found Zamora crouching behind a car nearby. He reportedly told police a similar story, except in his version, the trio was looking for marijuana but he didn't actually participate in any crime. Instead, Zamora said he was waiting by the car the entire time and it was Titone and the third suspect who committed the crime.

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Officers searched the immediate area and reportedly located a bag containing some money,Β 15 hand rolled tobacco cigarettes in a medicine bottle, 26 unmarked green pills inside a baggie, another 15 unmarked green pills inside a second baggie and a bottle of Vicodine pills prescribed to the victim.Β Β 

Titone and Zamora remain in the Racine County Jail on $500 cash bonds. They will next appear in court for their preliminary hearings on Oct. 10 before Court Commissioner Alice A. Rudebusch.


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