Man allegedly stole items from vacant home

By Vicky Wedig

Staff Writer   

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 19 for an East Troy man charged with stealing more than $2,500 worth of items from a vacant Town of Troy home.

Joshua A. Osborne

Joshua A. Osborne, 20, was charged Oct. 4 in Walworth County Circuit Court with burglary of a building or dwelling and theft of movable property, both as a party to a crime, and misdemeanor theft.

According to the criminal complaint:

A Town of Troy property owner Sept. 13 reported more than $2,500 worth of items missing from her home where she no longer lives. Missing from the house were a chainsaw, a leaf blower, a weed trimmer, about 50 movies, jewelry, milk cans, a 24-inch computer, a 19-inch flat screen TV and a 1940s wringer washer. Missing from the property were a 1957 International truck, a 1940s gas pump and a 1972 Honda motorcycle.

A witness said about four weeks prior he saw people with a truck, trailer and skid loader on the woman’s property pulling the truck out of the woods and onto the trailer. The witness said he knew the woman no longer lived at the house and thought she must have sold the truck.

Osborne admitted going to the woman’s house six or seven times with friends and taking items each time. He said he took the items to jewelry stores, pawn shops and scrap yards in Walworth County and sold them

One Comment

  1. Why would you give someone like that a bail..Just give them more time ot rob someone else