The suspect in an alleged burglary and truck theft near the Cedar River Country Club last year pleaded not guilty Monday in Mower County Court.

Keith Lammers, 28, of LeSeur, Minn., pleaded not guilty to third-degree burglary, vehicle theft and first-degree criminal damage to property, all felonies.

An Adams Police officer saw someone on the golf course property at 2 a.m. June 15, 2012, and then watched taillights disappear into a nearby bean field. According to the court complaint, the driver stopped in the field and shut off his lights. The officer and Mower County Sheriff’s deputies later set up a perimeter around the truck, a 1993 Toyota, but found it running with nobody inside. Back at the golf course, the front door was broken and propped open by a chair. No items were reported stolen, Chief Dept. Mark May said last June, but the damage estimate to the building was $1,451.

Local authorities then received a report later that day about a stolen Ford F150 from Adams, which was recovered days later in St. Peter, two blocks from where Lammers was living. Several days later, Lammers said his truck, the 1993 Toyota, and his boat were stolen.

The Mower County Sheriff’s Office got a warrant to test Lammers’ DNA against items found in the stolen Ford found in St. Peter. Lammers’ DNA matched DNA on a rag, the report added. Investigators also used Lammers’ GPS in his truck to check his recent locations.

Lammers has a pretrial set for Aug. 2.