DENMARK – Men from Lewiston and Litchfield are charged in connection with 22 camp burglaries on West Shore Road in Denmark, Oxford County Deputy Cpl. Dane Tripp said Wednesday night.

Joshua Westberry, 19, of 219 Pine St., Lewiston, and Kyle James Cathey, 20, of Litchfield were arraigned in 11th District Court in Paris on Monday and returned to the Oxford County Jail on $5,000 bail, Tripp said.

Westberry is charged with one count each of burglary, theft and possession of a firearm; Cathey with possession of stolen property, according to a jailer.

Cpl. Tripp said he was called to investigate a report of a burglary in progress on Nov. 24 and found Westberry, Cathey and a 16-year-old girl, who is from originally from Lewiston, walking on West Shore Road with a dirt bike and knapsacks.

After questioning, the three were taken into custody, he said.

The girl was taken to the Long Creek Youth Development Center in South Portland and then released to her mother and put on house arrest. Tripp said she is wanted by police in Florida.

Cathey is a felon out of North Carolina, he said, with a conviction for producing and selling marijuana.

The investigator said 22 seasonal camps along the dirt road beside Hancock Pond were broken into, including one where the trio had been living for several days. He said the rooms had been closed off so inside lights would not be seen from outside.

Tripp said in one camp he recovered guns, ammunition, money, liquor, clothing, electronics, movies and tools believed taken from the camps. He is contacting all the camp owners to identify the property.

The corporal estimated the stolen property and damage to buildings totals between $10,000 and $15,000.