Camera footage helps identify Youngsville burglars
Warrants have been issued for two Jamestown residents accused of stealing an ebike from a garage in Youngsville.
Charges were filed Friday against Aaron Nazario, 39, and Sarah E. Lundsten, 42, in regard to an Oct. 20 burglary in Youngsville.
Nazario is charged with burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary and criminal trespassing – entering a structure, all felony charges, as well as theft by unlawful taking and loitering and prowling at night time, both misdemeanor charges.
Lundsten is charged with conspiracy to commit burglary, a felony, and loitering and prowling at night time, a misdemeanor.
According to the affidavit of probable cause filed in Warren County Court by the Youngsville Police Department, Nazario allegedly stole an ebike from a garage in Youngsville valued at $1,200. The garage had been left open overnight, according to the affidavit.
A neighborhood resident was able to provide Ring doorbell camera footage showing a man and woman walking west on East Main Street, Youngsville, around 4:27 a.m. Oct. 20. The man shined a flashlight toward the garage and noticed it was open. Additional camera footage from the Country Fair store in Youngsville showed a Subaru Forester with New York registration that matched the pictures and video from the site of the burglary while the two people at Country Fair matched those seen in the Ring camera footage.
The arresting officer said Nazario met up with a woman at the Country Fair, with cameras allegedly showing Nazario getting a flashlight out of the Subaru and testing it. That flashlight, the officer said, was later seen in video used by Nazario to see into the open garage.
“Nazario is the only person that was observed walking up the driveway to the garage during this time,” the affidavit states. “Video shows Nazario riding the bike down the driveway and then him going east on East Main Street. The Subaru then follows.”
Charges against Lundsten were filed because she is allegedly the registered owner of the Subaru. Video footage from the Ring doorbell camera allegedly showed Lundsten and Nazario together at 4:27 a.m. walking down East Main Street and then again at 4:36 a.m. when Nazario allegedly got out of the car and walked up the driveway. Footage from Country Fair at 3 a.m. allegedly shows them together again.