PARIS – A Woodstock carpenter linked to several burglaries in the area was named in two separate indictments by an Oxford County grand jury this week.
Scott George Burton, 30, of Andrews Hill Road, was indicted on two felony counts of burglary, one felony count of theft, one felony count of receiving stolen property and a misdemeanor count of unlawful possession of scheduled drugs in connection with the burglaries of two homes in Norway that police say Burton had been working on.
The Oxford County Superior Court grand jury handed up the indictments Tuesday.
The homes had been burglarized during daylight when the owners were not home, according to police.
Burton was also indicted on a felony burglary charge and misdemeanor charges of theft and criminal mischief in connection with a home in Woodstock, which Burton allegedly broke into last month and stole a digital camera and prescription medications.
Norway police arrested Burton on Nov. 30 after he drove up to a home on Hummingbird Way where police were setting up a surveillance camera after an earlier burglary there. In Burton’s truck were a loaded handgun, prescription pills and a locked safe taken from a home on McKay Road, said Norway Police Chief Rob Federico.
The burglary on McKay Road was being reported to police as they interviewed Burton at the home on Hummingbird Way. Burton was charged with burglarizing both homes.
Burton is out on bail.
Federico said police searched Burton’s garage on Andrews Hill Road and found a locked room with six cordless phones still in their boxes, a new microwave oven, a laptop computer, a printer and tools.
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