By Vicky Wedig
Staff Writer
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Feb. 5 for a Milwaukee man charged with using a resident assistant’s key card and using it to steal packages from University of Whitewater dormitories.
Jelani H. Spencer, 19, was charged Dec. 12 in Walworth County Circuit Court with four counts of burglary of a room, seven counts of misdemeanor theft and possession of marijuana.
According to the criminal complaint:
After four reports of packages delivered to Clem and Bigelow halls on the UW-Whitewater campus being stolen between Sept. 28 and Oct. 18, police spoke to Spencer, who said he found an RA’s key card and used it to open the front desk areas of the dormitories. Spencer admitted taking four or five packages. Packages reported taken without consent contained shampoo, money, food, a cell phone case, and a computer case. The access report for the RA’s key card showed it was used Sept. 28 and 20 and Oct. 1, 2, 3 and 4 at Bigelow Hall and Oct. 15 and 17 at Clem Hall.
Spencer was also found checking car doors in a parking lot on Carriage Drive in Whitewater on Nov. 25. He allegedly took a bracelet and change from a car.
The next day, Spencer was seen leaving an apartment building on Tratt Street and throwing a clutch purse along the side of the building. The purse, which contained less than $5, was taken from a vehicle.
