A suspect in a felony property damage case in downtown Casper has confessed to the crime. According to the Casper police, the suspect went into the ANB Bank in downtown Casper on Monday and confessed to staff that he’d been the one who shattered several windows the night before.
Investigation Details
Security footage from around 11 p.m. on Sunday night showed a male who resembled the suspect walking past the building, and another camera captured a rock being thrown at one of the windows. The officer who first investigated counted six broken windows on the outside of the building. Based on the spiderweb cracking pattern and the large bed of rocks nearby, police believed the suspect had used rocks.
Around 1:24 p.m. on Monday, bank staff reported that a man had just walked in and admitted to being the person who broke the windows. They asked him to leave and told police which direction he’d gone. Police then contacted Joseph Miller, 33, a few blocks away. Miller reportedly confirmed the story bank staff had told. He reportedly made statements about his involvement in damaging windows at a nearby funeral home.
Miller appeared in circuit court on Wednesday, July 1, where he told the judge they had the wrong guy because his race had been misidentified on his paperwork. Bond was set at $10,000 cash or surety. Miller is presumed innocent unless found or pleading guilty.
Original reporting: Oil City News (Casper WY) — read the source article.
