New Year’s Breaking and Entering

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One man is in custody on breaking and entering charges. Just after midnight on New Year’s Day, Officers were dispatched to Lakeview Avenue in Union Pier for a breaking and entering of a residence in progress. Officers were advised that the caller saw a person fall out of their neighbor’s window and knew the neighbor to be on vacation. Upon arriving to the area, officers found two neighboring homes had been broken into and the suspect had fled the scene. Investigation revealed that the suspect, Franklin Campbell, was staying at a home in the area. Officers were able to locate him a short time later and he was taken into custody without incident.  He was arrested and taken to the Berrien County Jail on charges of breaking and entering two residential dwellings.