Shakopee Man Charged With Burglary at Wampach's Restaurant

A 21-year-old Shakopee man has been charged with burglary in connection with a break-in at Wampach’s restaurant over the weekend.

Joshua Michael Rollins is facing one count of felony/gross misdemeanor third-degree burglary and one count of felony possession of burglary tools.

According to the criminal complaint, officers were called to just before 2 a.m. on March 18 for a report of a burglary in which citizens had detained a suspect.

When officers arrived, they saw three people in the middle of the intersection of First Avenue and Holmes and two of them were waving at him.

One of the men told the officer that they had seen Rollins inside the restaurant and that he fled when he realized he had been seen. One of the men said he chased Rollins, caught him and told him they would wait for police.

In Rollins’s pockets, police found a pair of gloves, a screwdriver, a knife, a flashlight, two rolls of dimes and about $11 in cash.

Rollins allegedly told officers that he had been drinking all day and that he was homeless and hungry. He also said he planned to take food from the restaurant that he had a cream soda and a dum-dum sucker while inside for 20-30 minutes.

The owner of Wampach’s, Mary Johnson, confirmed to police the next day that someone had been in the restaurant overnight and showed them possible pry marks on the door.

She also said that about $10 was missing, that other items had been tampered with and that the same thing had happened two other times in the past week,

Rollins remains in the on $10,000 bail with an initial court appearance set for March 23. He was previously convicted of felony third-degree burglary in 2010 and was convicted of misdemeanor theft and misdemeanor tampering with a motor vehicle in February.