A preliminary hearing is scheduled today for a Darien man charged with breaking into a Town of Spring Prairie home last month.
Jeremie L. Bidlack, 26, was charged June 29 in Walworth County Circuit Court with burglary of a building or dwelling as a party to a crime, obstructing an officer and possession of a controlled substance, all as a repeater.
Bidlack is suspected of breaking into a home on Potter Road in the Town of Spring Prairie on June 18. Responding to a report of a suspicious person, deputies encountered Bidlack at Potter Road and County Highway DD at about 4:30 a.m. June 28 holding a wood box that he’d picked up in the ditch, according to the complaint. A bicycle also lay in the ditch, and Bidlack loaded the items into a pickup truck, ignored a deputy’s command to stop and rode away in the truck, driven by David S. Willison Jr.
Willison fled from deputies who attempted to conduct a traffic stop on the truck, and parked in his driveway on Ravine Drive in Racine County – a quarter mile from the Walworth County border.
When deputies attempted to apprehend Willison and Bidlack at that location, Bidlack ran from police, and Willison ignored a deputy’s command to get to the ground but did not run, according to the complaint. A deputy caught Bidlack on foot and found numerous pieces of jewelry and a prescription sedative on him, according to the complaint.
Multiple bottles of pills, cash and several pieces of jewelry were also found on Willison, and a high-end racing bike, guitar amplifier, multiple tools and fishing reels were found in the truck, and another bicycle was found in the ditch on Potter Road, according to the complaint.
Potters Road resident Gary Holsters identified items found in the truck including a racing bicycle and an antique radio as his, according to the complaint. Holsters said he also was missing an electric guitar and a black and red bike, which were found in the truck, and a red BMC Cyclocross bike, which was found in the ditch.
Bidlack is charged as a repeater having been convicted of child abuse in Walworth County in 2014.
Willison, 43, of Burlington, is charged with felony fleeing an officer, resisting or obstructing an officer and two counts of possession of a controlled substance. He was expected to waive a preliminary hearing in the case July 8.
