Patrol Lieutenant Nabs Auto Burglar

Occurred on February 21, 2012   4:19 AM               4018 SPID                            1202210019

Patrol Lieutenant T. Nichols was parked in a used car lot in the 4000 block of SPID reviewing reports when he heard two loud noises just east of his location.  Nichols looked to see where the sounds came from and then heard two more.  Lt. Nichols drove up the access road and saw Wayne Dimbleby (DOB: 3-28-83) standing near the passenger window of an Oldsmobile Alero with a hammer in his hand.  Nichols ordered him to drop the hammer and get down on the ground; Dimbleby complied after tossing the hammer through the now broken passenger window.  Dimbleby was arrested and charged with auto burglary.  The registered owner of the car told officers that she had left the car in the business parking lot after it had broken down.  She recognized Dimbleby as a friend of her boyfriends, but did not give him permission to break into her car.