YORK COUNTY — Deputies from the York County Sheriff’s Office were able to solve two puzzling burglaries from rural areas earlier this month and recover an estimated $15,000 in stolen property this week.

According to York County Sheriff William L. King Jr., employees of SP Construction of West Newfield reported a burglary on Oct. 12 to deputies in which a construction trailer had been broken into at a job site in Cornish.

King said that during that incident, about $15,000 in power and hand tools were stolen.

The sheriff said that just three days later on Oct. 15, a home owner in Parsonsfield made a report to deputies that someone had broken into his barn and several thousand dollars worth of power and hand tools had been stolen. 

“Sheriff’s deputies developed some leads and identified some probable suspects,” King said. “Continued investigation developed evidence that led to the arrest and summons of three Parsonsfield men for the burglary and theft and the recovery of almost all of the stolen tools.”

Those arrested or summoned for the thefts include Matthew Olson, 20, Tyler Deshaies, 19, and John J. Bubar, 31, all of Parsonsfield.

King said that Olson was arrested for felony theft and summonsed for burglary.  He is currently in the York County Jail on $750 cash bail. 

Deshaies was also arrested for felony theft and was released from the York County Jail after posting $500 bail, King said. A third suspect, Bubar, was summonsed for burglary. 

All three suspects are scheduled to be appear in York County Superior Court in Alfred on Dec. 8 to answer the charges.

— Executive Editor Ed Pierce can be reached at 282-1535 ext. 326 or by email at editor@journaltribune.com.