April 13, 1999
Eleven face charges in burglaries
By Jefferson Wolfe
Staff Writer
Seven adults and four youths have been charged in connection with a string of burglaries at rural Seneca County homes.
Sheriff H. Weldin Neff said the charges stem from a nine-month investigation and involve a total of 25 counts.
Lt. James Browning said six of the adults have been arrested:
- John P. Broski, 18, address unavailable, is charged with three counts of burglary, three counts of safecracking and one count each of corrupting another with drugs, complicity to burglary, complicity to safecracking and complicity to retaining stolen property.
- Christopher J. Egbert, 19, address unavailable, is charged with two counts of burglary and two counts of safecracking.
- Faye A. DeTray, 19, address unavailable, is charged with complicity to safecracking, complicity to burglary and complicity to retaining stolen property.
- Craigary C. McCoy, 20, address unavailable, is charged with two counts of burglary and two counts of safecracking.
- Joshua A. Daniels, 19, 5849 N. SR 635, Fostoria, is charged with complicity to burglary and complicity to safecracking.
- Toni Lynn Durain, 19, 5473 N. TR 63, Lot 111, Fostoria, is charged with complicity to burglary and complicity to safecracking.
Three of the arrests were made Monday while the others were made last week.
The youths were charged through Seneca County Juvenile Court, Browning said.
The charges stem from break-ins, including: a CR 5 home on June 6, 1998 and on March 24, 1999; a SR 635 home in December 1998; and a CR 10 home on March 23.
Browning said Broski was the ringleader of two different groups who were committing the break-ins. McCoy and Egbert were in the second group, he said, while the other were in the first.
"Through our information, Broski is trying to pass himself off as a big-time drug dealer," he said. When Broski was arrested in Clyde, he had $1,400 cash and a half-pound of marijuana, Browning said.
All the break-ins happened at homes of people Broski knew, he said.
"He was associated with them or related to them," Browning said.
In one case, at the SR 635 home, Browning said Broski and McCoy took a youth for a drive and gave him drugs while Egbert and another youth stole things from the house.
"A lot of the property in the last string of break-ins was recovered," Browning said.
Clyde Police uncovered some of the property and the two departments worked together with the investigation. Browning said Det. Brian Chapman's effort also was instrumental in the case.
"He did an awful lot of work," he said.