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Burglary suspects busted
$100,000: Trio smashed through a wall to hit one business, police say.
By MEGAN HOLLANDAnchorage Daily News
Published: June 7, 2006 Last Modified: June 7, 2006 at 03:41 AM

Three Anchorage men who police say were responsible for a string of brazen break-ins of local businesses have been arrested.

"These guys thought they were untouchable, that they could get away with it," said Sgt. Ron Tidler. "They were thrill seekers."
Tidler and store owners estimate the retail value of goods stolen in the burglaries at more than $100,000. The ring targeted a gaming store, an auto electronics store and office warehouses, according to prosecutor documents filed in Anchorage District Court. A computer store owner said he was also a victim.

Police said Trevor Morin-Martinez, 21, Kyle Dwiggins, 20, and Reginal Roark, 22, were arrested Friday after a months-long investigation.

In late April, a police officer pulled over the three in a car that matched the description of a suspect vehicle caught on camera from a previous theft. The men were wearing black and had a police scanner, power tools and a rifle in the car.

"They made up some goofy story ... that they were working out at karate school and it was broken into and they all went looking for the bad guys," Tidler said.

Police impounded the car but made no arrests.

About two weeks later, on May 10, police say, the three burglarized the Alaska MacStore by breaking into an adjacent business, then busting through a wall to bypass the computer store's alarm.

Alaska MacStore owner Raymond Long said, "We've been burglarized before, but this was really a big hit."

Police say the thieves broke into Microplay, an electronic-gaming store on Abbott Road, twice in one night.

"They went back when they realized they had forgotten some stuff," Tidler said.

Morin-Martinez and Dwiggins once worked for a local security company, Guardian Security Systems, prosecution documents say. They and Roark cased stores and studied security systems. They developed detailed plans for the burglaries, then at times watched from afar after the break-ins as police responded, Tidler said.

Charles Hodsdon, owner of Alaska Auto Electronics in Midtown, said his business was burglarized April 12: "They took almost all of my inventory."

"It was a mess. Things were thrown all over the place," he said.
Police said they discovered a cache of equipment including iPods, computers and Xboxes worth about $40,000 at the trio's South Anchorage homes, which were across the street from each other near West 75th Avenue. Police say they also found 10 wholesale-size boxes of beef jerky, a projector stolen from a BP company warehouse, a DVD player stolen from a State of Alaska Division of Water warehouse and a red motorcycle that had been spray-painted blue.

"I think they took whatever they could move," Tidler said.

Prosecutors said the burglars traded and sold stolen goods from their homes. One customer traded a muffler for an iPod, prosecutors say.

The search for others involved in the ring continues, Tidler said.