A Bath man was arrested Saturday for having allegedly broken into a fellow tenant’s Washington Street apartment on Friday night and stealing items he then tried to pawn the next morning.

Randy Lebretton, 39, of 424 Washington St., was arrested and charged with Class B burglary and Class C theft. Unable to make the $2,500 bail, he was transported to Two Bridges Regional Jail in Wiscasset.

Bath Police Lt. Robert Savary said a tenant who lives in the apartment building at 424 Washington St. returned home at 10 p.m. to discover that sometime since he’d left around 3 p.m., multiple items has been stolen from his apartment, including a flat screen television, DVDs and clothing and other items roughly totaling about $3,500, Savary estimated.

The next day, Saturday at 11:22 a.m., police received a call from Jamison’s Trading Post and Pawn on Commercial Street reporting that a man was trying to pawn several items and raised red flags for the shop owner. While the man left the pawn shop temporarily, Officer Garrett Olson arrived to inspect the items which included a pellet rifle, sword and bag of video games and movies. Savary said Olson then located Lebretton leaving Bracket’s Market and questioned him about the items and determined they were those stolen from the Washington Street apartment on Friday night.

Savary said Lebretton had left Bracket’s Market with some grocery items he’d paid for but also some sandwich meat he’d stolen.

Lebretton was arrested and later at around 7 p.m. Saturday Bath police executed a search warrant on his apartment where Savary said police recovered more stolen items.

Savary said Bath police did a good job piecing together the case and added, “We wouldn’t have been able to do it without staff at Jamison’s Trading Post and Pawn.”

dmoore@timesrecord.com