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Mark A. Fry, 52, of Roundhead, was charged with two counts of burglary Sunday after he reportedly attempted to enter a residence on Township Road 250, Lakeview, that morning.
Deputies of the Logan County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the residence about 8:50 a.m. on a report of an attempted burglary. The resident reported that he caught a shirtless suspect attempting to burglarize the home.
When deputies arrived, the resident told them that he was sleeping and security sensors at the home alerted him about 8:43 a.m. about a possible intruder, later identified as Fry.
The resident said he got up and armed himself with a handgun and investigated. He found Fry in his breezeway, and said the suspect offered to return a battery charger that he had stolen and then attempted to flee.
The resident said he held the suspect at gunpoint, and there was a struggle between himself and Fry.
The defendant reportedly struck the resident’s arm, and the resident in turn struck Fry in the face with the handgun, causing injury to his nose.
The suspect then ran to his vehicle and the resident fired the handgun at the vehicle’s tires. Fry was able to drive away, and he was located shortly thereafter by Hardin County deputies at his residence. Deputies observed that he had sustained facial injuries. He was placed under arrest and transported to the Logan County Jail.
At Fry’s residence, deputies located an air compressor belonging to the victim, who reported he had been burglarized several times this month and recently had installed the security system. He said the air compressor was stolen Aug. 4, and also missing from his residence was a microwave that had been stolen from his breezeway Aug. 1.