Miami County Sheriff’s Office identifies suspect in string of break-ins, burglaries

UNION TWP., Miami County — A 35-year-old man last known to have a Verona, Ohio, address has been identified as the suspect in a string of break-ins and burglaries in Union Twp. in mid-June, Miami County Sheriff Dave Duchak said.

Michael Kleismit, the named suspect, is known to sheriff's detectives because they arrested him in previously on three counts of breaking and entering for committing similar crimes in Newton Twp. in February.

Kleismit was out on bond on those charges.

He is in the Clark County jail now on similar charges in Darke and Montgomery counties.

Miami County sheriff's deputies will be presenting to a county grand jury the most recent cases in Union Twp., which involve two burglary reports and three breaking and entering reports on Iddings Road, Frederick-Garland Road, and Ginghamsburg-Frederick Road.

The burglaries had occurred overnight with the suspect entering two attached garages and stealing items along with entering the property of three other home owners and stealing from their cars. Some of the stolen property has been recovered.

Miami County currently has a warrant detainer on Kleismit, Sheriff Duchak said.

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