POCATELLO — A 23-year-old local man was recently arrested after police say he drove a stolen car to a Pocatello neighborhood and burglarized a home and vehicle before barricading himself in the basement of another nearby home.
Nicklas Joshua Schuyler, of Pocatello, has been charged with two counts of burglary, possession of a stolen vehicle and unlawful entry, all felonies, as well as misdemeanor obstructing and delaying an officer following an incident on Saturday morning, according to police and court records the Idaho State Journal recently obtained.
The incident unfolded when Pocatello police received the report from a man who said he observed a white man with blonde hair, jeans and no shirt, later identified as Schuyler, park a blue Dodge Caliber in front of the yard of a home on Harvard Street in Pocatello and enter the residence, police said. The man said that he heard a woman scream before losing sight of Schuyler but he believed the man was committing a burglary at the time, officers said in the report.
Police discovered the Dodge Caliber had been reported stolen out of Fort Hall around 2 a.m. on Saturday, the report says.
Officers arrived in the area and were informed by neighbors that Schuyler was in front of a home on Yale Street, said police, adding that when an officer located Schuyler he was in the process of committing a burglary on a vehicle.
Schuyler fled the area on foot and officers lost sight of him but a perimeter of the neighborhood was created, the report says. Officers then received a report from a woman living on Stanford Street that Schuyler had entered the basement of her apartment on Stanford, police said.
Officers contacted the woman through the bedroom of her apartment as she had barricaded herself inside and she indicated that Schuyler had entered through the door located on the west side of the residence, said police.
An officer with his K-9 partner entered the home and immediately observed Schuyler hiding in a bed under the sheets while holding a book, police said. Schuyler matched the description provided earlier by the man on Harvard Street and ordered him out of the bed, said police, adding that Schuyler was taken into custody without further incident.
Schuyler was observed in the bed wearing a floral shirt and black sweatpants, which were later determined to belong to the roommate of the woman who reported Schuyler was in her basement, the report says. The jeans Schuyler was wearing initially were located on the floor of the apartment, police said.
Inside the stolen Dodge Caliber, officers located a package that was addressed to a home on Harvard and a snowblower valued at $900 from another home on Harvard, police said. Officers also located items on Yale Street where Schuyler was initially located that were reported stolen from a vehicle on Harvard, the report says. Witnesses told officers that after Schuyler fled he also stole a bicycle that he used to traverse to other streets in the neighborhood, police said.
Schuyler was then charged, arrested and booked inside the Bannock County Jail in Pocatello.
He appeared in front of 6th District Magistrate Judge David Hooste for an arraignment hearing on Monday, during which his bond was set at $25,000.
He is due back in court on July 25 for a preliminary hearing that will involve local prosecutors attempting to prove there is enough evidence against him to elevate the case from the magistrate to district court level for trial.
If convicted of all felony charges filed against him, he faces up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $200,000.
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