Man Sentenced After Alleged Accomplice Tips Police on Burglary

Woodbury police at 5:20 a.m. on Jan. 23 stopped a vehicle driving slowly through the neighborhoods around Prestwick Golf Club.

Officers talked to the people inside the SUV, and one of them told police he saw two men slide beneath a partially open garage door about 25 minutes before.

The subsequent investigation led police to believe it was two of the men in the vehicle that actually committed the crime.

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Jered Michael Sternaman, 20, of White Bear Lake, was recently sentenced to jail time and 10 years of probation following the burglary conviction. He must also pay $1,241 in restitution to the victim. A second charge of theft was dismissed.

Another man, Harley Davidson Sullivan, of Hastings, was also charged with burglary.

According to the criminal complaints:

An officer responding to an alarm at Prestwick Golf Club spotted an SUV driving slowly through the area, and recalled an inner-department memo regarding a theft suspect who drives a similar vehicle and conducted a traffic stop.

There were three people in the SUV, and they provided documentation that they were delivering newspapers.

One of the men, identified as Sullivan, told police they had witnessed a crime.

Police followed Sullivan to the home, at the 10300 block of Dorset Lane, where they made contact with the homeowners and learned that three vehicles in the garaged showed signs of tampering. A purse was missing from one of the cars.

Sullivan and Sternaman were allowed to leave.

Authorities later discovered that one of the homeowner’s credit cards had been used later that morning at a gas station in Cottage Grove. Surveillance images from the station matched Sullivan and Sternaman. (The credit card was also used for $481 worth of purchases at a Wal-Mart and $24 in purchases at a McDonald’s before being declined for $369 worth of goods at a SuperAmerica.)

On Jan. 24, Ramsey County deputies arrested Sullivan and Sternaman and transported them to the Washington County Jail.