Preliminary hearings were scheduled for July 8 and 14 respectively for a Whitewater man and a Beloit man charged with breaking into at least 14 homes in the same Town of Delavan neighborhood in 2013.
Christopher A. Kimps, 27, of Whitewater, and Jesse D. Adams III, 25, of Beloit were charged last month in Walworth County Circuit Court with 11 counts of burglary of a building or dwelling and three counts of criminal damage to property, all as a party to a crime and as a repeater.
Adams and Kimps are suspected of breaking into at least six homes on Windtree Lane and eight homes on North Shore Park Lane in the Town of Delavan on Jan. 3, 2013. The homes were broken into in similar manners – most by breaking glass window panes of the front doors, according to the complaint. The same shoe print that bore a zigzag pattern was found in the snow at several of the residences.
Nearly $18,000 worth of items were stolen from the homes including televisions, computers, bottles of alcohol and wine, a game system, flashlights, sports cards, a slot machine and change, according to the complaint.
Some of the items were found in a 2003 Acura that had been taken from a home at 1510 Windtree Lane and was recovered behind Office Max in Lake Geneva later that day. Police were able to identify Adams and Kimps in surveillance from the nearby Walmart. Kimps was driving the stolen Acura in the video, and Adams was wearing shoes that matched the prints found in the snow at the burglarized homes, according to the complaint.
Adams was wearing the same shoes when he and Kimps were arrested Jan. 12, 2013, for an armed home invasion in Rock County, according to the complaint. DNA from a Mountain Dew bottle found in the Acura matched Adams’ DNA, according to the complaint.
