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Camera footage helps identify thieves in Youngsville | News, Sports, Jobs
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Camera footage helps identify thieves in Youngsville | News, Sports, Jobs

Warrants have been issued for two Jamestown residents accused of stealing an electric bicycle from a garage in Youngsville.

Charges were filed Friday against Aaron Nazario, 39, and Sarah E. Lundsten, 42, in connection with an Oct. 20 burglary in Youngsville.

Nazario is charged with burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary and criminal trespass – entering a structure, all felony charges, as well as theft by unlawful taking and loitering and prowling at night, both misdemeanor charges.

Lundsten is charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, a felony, and loitering and loitering at night, a misdemeanor.

According to the probable cause affidavit filed in Warren County Court by the Youngsville Police Department, Nazario allegedly stole an electric bicycle from a Youngsville garage valued at $1,200. The garage had been left open overnight, according to the affidavit.

A neighborhood resident was able to provide Ring Doorbell camera footage showing a man and woman walking westbound on East Main Street, Youngsville, around 4:27 a.m. on Oct. 20. The man shone his flashlight toward the garage and noticed it was open. Additional footage from the Country Fair store in Youngsville showed a Subaru Forester with New York plates that matched pictures and video from the break-in scene, while the two people at Country Fair matched those seen in the Ring dash cam footage.

The arresting officer said Nazario met a woman at the Country Fair, and the cameras allegedly showed Nazario pulling a flashlight from the Subaru and testing it. That flashlight, the officer said, was later seen in a video Nazario used to see into the open garage.

“Nazario is the only person who was observed walking down the driveway to the garage during this time,” the affidavit states. “The video shows Nazario riding his bike in the driveway and then walking east on East Main Street. Then comes Subaru.”

Charges against Lundsten were filed because she was the registered owner of the Subaru. Video footage from the Ring doorbell camera showed Lundsten and Nazario together at 4:27 a.m. walking down East Main Street and then again at 4:36 a.m. when Nazario allegedly got out of the car and walked up the driveway. Pictures from Country Fair at 3am also show them together.