Brianna Rae Tollefson and John Conrad Weber, both Bemidji 18-year-olds, and Justin Ray Lewis, 29, of Red Oak, Texas, were charged Monday in Beltrami County District Court in relation to a Nov. 26 burglary at the Other Place Bar in Turtle River.
Lewis and Weber were charged with felony second-degree burglary by entering a building while in possession of tools to gain access to money or property. Tollefson was charged with felony aiding and abetting second-degree burglary.
Tollefson was released from the Beltrami County Jail, but Weber and Lewis remained incarcerated as of Monday.
A fourth suspect - a 17-year-old boy - will make a court appearance in the near future. He remained in custody as of Monday.
According to a press release issued Monday by Beltrami County Sheriff Phil Hodapp, follow-up investigations by sheriff's investigators and Bemidji Police detectives have linked the four suspects to several recent unsolved burglaries in Beltrami County and Bemidji. The evidence in these additional cases has been turned over to the Beltrami County Attorney's Office for possible additional charges.
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According to the criminal complaints, at about 3:30 a.m. Nov. 26, an alarm at the Other Place Bar, apparently tripped by the front door sensor and interior motion sensors, dispatched Beltrami County deputies to the Turtle River business.
