Two home burglaries were reported Monday to the Mower County Sheriff’s Department.

Tuesday, May 02, 2000

Two home burglaries were reported Monday to the Mower County Sheriff’s Department.

A LeRoy woman reported her home was entered by the front door sometime between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday while she was away at work.

Antique vases and tin cups were taken as well as an arrowhead rock and gold chain.

Also reported to the Sheriff’s Department was a rural Austin home burglary.

According to the report, the burglars entered the woman’s home through a window and left via the patio door.

It also appears the victim’s garage and a travel trailer were ransacked, but nothing appears missing.

The burglary occurred sometime between noon and 4 p.m. Monday, while the victim was away from her residence.

Pat-down finds drugs

Vincente Buenraostro, 19, no known address, was charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver.

Austin police officers were called to Riverside Arena at 12:55 a.m. Saturday, where a Hispanic music concert and dance were in progress.

Security personnel hired by the sponsors of the events told police they routinely pat down concert-goers and when doing this to the man identified as Buenraostro, they discovered a quantity they believed to be cocaine and detained the man for police.

Police discovered $940 in cash on Buenrastro’s person as well as the cocaine and took him into custody.

Apartment ransacked

David Swanson, 506 Oakland Ave. East, was the victim of a burglary early Saturday evening.

According to an Austin Police Department report, Swanson left his apartment at 4:30 p.m. Saturday and returned at 8 p.m. to find it ransacked.

Missing was $1,700 in cash, plus jewelry items.

Entrance was gained by removing the screen on a rear window.

Anyone seeing persons around the four-plex apartment building Saturday afternoon should contact the Austin-Mower County law enforcement center at 437-9400.

Assailant left on bike

The Austin Police Department is searching for the man identified as the assailant in a beating over the weekend.

Carrie Wolcott told investigators her estranged husband, Robert Wolcott, 44, entered her home and while she was talking on the telephone assaulted her boyfriend, Kim Kestner, also 44.

When police arrived, they observed Kestner, wiping blood from his face with a towel. He had suffered lacerations and a visit to the Austin Medical Center’s emergency room later revealed he also suffered bone fractures.

Wolcott, the man believed to be the assailant, was last seen riding away from the scene on a mountain bike.