Probable cause found in burglary case

Charges against 29-year-old Nathan Pohl related to area burglaries and an escape from police will move forward after it was found last week that there was probable cause to believe that the defendant committed the crimes for which he is charged.

The Sidney man is charged with burglary, escape and possession of a deadly weapon. Pohl was initially arrested earlier this month when law enforcement found him trespassing at the golf course mower shed. Upon his arrest, police allegedly found several items which belonged in the mower shed inside his vehicle.

Later that day, Pohl reportedly escaped the police department for a short period of time but was later located, when an employee at Points West Bank on Glover Rd. informed authorities that there was a man she didn’t know in the back seat of her car. On suspicion that Pohl was involved in other recent burglaries, police executed a search warrant on his current residence.

“We located items stolen in a recent residential burglary and also located items stolen in the street department burglary,” said Sidney police Chief B.J. Wilkinson in a previous interview.

Pohl reportedly invoked his miranda rights and would not admit to involvement with any burglaries.

In the break in at the city street department building on Dec. 9., a flatbed pickup truck was stolen. Other items taken from the building included hand and power tools, laptop computers and a portable welder.

The stolen truck was found on the afternoon of Dec. 9 in a pasture north of town. It had been partially hidden with hay bales.

Pohl’s next court date is March 5.