Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Cedar Falls Police Catch Real-Life 'Hamburgler'

A man broke into the McDonald's on West First Street early Sunday and stole food and beverages.

Updated at 8:55 p.m.

Cedar Falls Police said Wartburg student Whitley Allen Teslow, 21, of Waverly, turned himself in after a surveillance video of himself breaking into a Cedar Falls McDonalds circulated widely in the media earlier today.

The video shows a young man breaking into the eatery through a window and cooking and eating a meal before leaving with a beverage nearly 30 minutes later.

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Teslow was arrested and charged with one count each of third degree burglary, fourth degree criminal mischief and fifth degree theft

Third degree burglary is a class D felony, punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine between $750 to $7500.

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Previous coverage:

Cedar Falls Police are asking for the public's help solving a weekend burglary. This much about the suspect is known: He was hungry, he knows how to work a fryer and he really, really likes ketchup.

The man broke a window and entered the at 610 West First Street at 1:55 a.m. Sunday.

A surveillance video shows him preparing and eating a meal inside the building. He cranks up the fryer, downs some french fries and then heads to the lobby, where he goes to the ketchup and pumps out four little helpings.

He leaves, beverage in hand, via the same window he broke to get inside nearly 30 minutes later. 

Police described the suspect as a white male in his 20s with brown hair and a slender build.

Anyone with information that may make this a theft of an Unhappy Meal is asked to call the at 319-273-8612.

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