Man charged with 3 downtown Crystal Lake burglaries

A Berwyn man has been charged in connection to three burglaries of downtown Crystal Lake businesses, according to police.

Authorities gathered video surveillance from Trax Coffee Shop, 70 E. Woodstock St., Dawn’s Bread Shop, 19 N. Williams St., and The Running Depot, 30 N. Williams St., on Jan. 29 after all three businesses were broken into, police announced Monday. An undisclosed ammount of cash was taken from each business.

Officers obtained surveillance images of a suspect near one of the businesses taken around the same time of the break-in, and later that evening responded to a call for a suicidal person at the Metra train station on Woodstock Street, according to authorities.

Officers recognized the man at the train station to be the same person captured in surveillance footage earlier in the night and transported him to Woodstock’s Centegra Hospital for an evaluation, police said.

Joshua J. Barranco, 32, was arrested upon his release from the hospital on Feb. 6 and charged with one count of theft and two counts of criminal damage to property in connection to the Trax Coffee Shop burglary, police said.

As Barranco remained at the McHenry County jail in lieu of $60,000 bail, police said they gained additional evidence that linked him to the Dawn’s Bread Shop and The Running Depot burglaries. On Feb. 10, he was charged with two additional counts of burglary, three counts of criminal damage to property and two counts of theft, according to police.

A judge set a second bail at $50,000.

Barranco is due in court Tuesday.