Police are investigating at least three break-ins in southern Johnson County.
They also are working to determine if a fourth report of a man in a white box van on a property is related to the break-ins, according to the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office.
All of the break-ins were reported in Hensley and Union townships Monday.
- An air compressor, a chain saw and power tools were stolen from a barn in the 7000 block of South County Road 575W before 11 a.m. Monday. Someone entered the building by breaking a window, the report said.
- In the 5000 block of South County Road 500W, residents reported at 4:45 p.m. Monday the lock to a gate had been broken and two lawn chairs were stolen from the barn.
- In the 8000 block of South County Road 700W, a resident reported at 5 p.m. Monday a large tool box was missing from a garage and that the door to the garage had been broken into.
Police also were called to a home in the 6000 block of West County Road 150S, northwest of Trafalgar, at 4:30 p.m. Monday. A resident saw a white box van pull into the driveway and a man get out. The man apparently saw the resident lift the blinds in a window and got back into the vehicle and left, striking their car parked in the driveway, the report said.
Anyone with information is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 736-5155.
