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Iredell County authorities say muddy shoes helped investigators link a suspect in several car break-ins to crimes at three businesses.
Raziel Austin Joshua Allison, 18, of Statesville, has been charged with multiple counts of breaking and entering of motor vehicles, larceny and breaking and entering in connection with the crimes. Additional charges are pending.
The Iredell County Sheriff’s Office said five cars were broken into last week on Mount Zion Drive in Statesville. Separately, authorities also received a call about a breaking and entering at the Harmony Milling company.
According to the Sheriff's Office, deputies responding to Harmony Milling found shoe impression near a window that had been broken into at the business and on some papers inside the building. An investigator followed the shoeprints, the sheriff’s office said, leading them to additional break-ins at Lowery Livestock Feeds and Harmony Masonic Lodge #299.
The sheriff’s office said Allison was being interviewed as a possible suspect in the car break-ins when a detective noticed he had mud on his shoes. The shoes were later seized and the Sheriff’s Office Crime Lab determined they matched the shoe impressions left at the businesses that were broken into.
