Charges: Teen Burglarized Business, Stole Car and Broke into House

A 19-year-old Brookfield man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly broke into a home and an automotive dealership.

Joshua P. Carson was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court Monday with one count of burglary while arming himself with a dangerous weapon, one count of burglary of building and one count of operating a motor vehicle without consent of the owner. If convicted, he faces up to 33 years in prison and $85,000 in fines.

According to the criminal complaint:

At 9:53 p.m. Saturday officers were called a residence in the 17100 block of Vanderbilt Drive when a couple who had come home from a day of fishing found Carson in their house with pornography playing on a television. Carson, who identified himself as “Jake Fish” to one of the homeowners, told them he was looking for their daughter.

One of the homeowners asked why guns they kept in their bedroom were laying out on the floor, and Carson then ran out of the house. Officers later found Carson lying in tall grass at the end of Duke Court, with the help of a K-9 unit from the Village of Butler police department, according to the complaint and a police report.

The criminal complaint alleges Carson told investigators he was kicked out of his mother’s house two days earlier and had been looking through the residence looking for drugs.

Carson also later admitted to burglarizing where he stole a Ford Explorer. The stolen vehicle was found outside the Vanderbilt Drive house, according to a police report.