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Witness Spots Man Allegedly Breaking into Storage Unit
SAUK RAPIDS TOWNSHIP - An alert witness helped stop a burglary in progress.
The Benton County Sheriff says they received a call just before 2:00 a.m. this (Wednesday) morning at a storage facility at 780 Mayhew Lake Road Northeast. The caller spotted a man cutting locks off the storage lockers.
Responding deputies found the man hiding inside one of the storage units. He's been identified as 38-year-old Lenny Bissell of St. Cloud. He's being held in the Benton County Jail.
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