UPDATED at 2:45 p.m. with charges
LINCOLN COUNTY • A man has confessed to breaking into more than 160 vehicles in just a month, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department said Wednesday.
Joseph Walker III, 19, of Winfield was arrested Friday by sheriff's deputies. In interviews with detectives for the sheriff's department and Troy, Mo., police, Walker said he worked alone and implicated no other suspects.
The sheriff's department said some stolen property was recovered but that most already had been disposed of.
Walker was being held in the Lincoln County Jail on $35,000 bond. He faces charges of theft, tampering with a motor vehicle, stealing of a credit card and receiving stolen property, said Maj. Kurt Venneman of the sheriff's department.