Jan 7, 2015 3 min read

WAYNESBURG – A Waynesburg man charged with burglarizing a borough residence after the homeowner, who was monitoring home security cameras via a cellphone and alerted police an intruder was there, has been charged with an additional unrelated burglary.

Kevin R. Yeager, 29, of 323 S. Washington St., was arrested Dec. 22 and placed in Greene County jail for a burlary at the 656 Huffman St. residence of Keith McClure Jr. While being questioned in this burglary, Yeager allegedly confessed to Waynesburg Borough Police Officer Nick Remmie he also burglarized the home of Sheryl Ondrejko at 651 Huffman St. Oct. 30.

The charges for the Oct. 30 incident include burglary, criminal trespass, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief. Charges in the McClure incident include burglary, criminal trespass, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, disorderly conduct and a summary drug offense.

Police said Yeager gained access to the Ondrejko home by breaking a window. He allegedly took three laptop computers valued in excess of $2,000, according to a criminal complaint.

McClure helped police make an arrest in the burglary at his home with a quick call to 911 after seeing someone picking things up inside it. Remmie was the first officer at the scene. McClure’s father, Keith McClure Sr., arrived at the residence shortly before Remmie, not knowing someone was inside. He began to punch in a key code that opens a side door.

“I saw somebody going into the house and then I heard someone yelling, ‘Hey!’ from the other side of the house. McClure Sr. spooked Yeager,” Remmie said.

Other Waynesburg officers arrived and set up a perimeter so Yeager couldn’t get past them when Remmie spotted him hiding behind a bush at the side of 341 Third St. “I asked him (Yeager) why he ran. He said he heard the keypad being punched and thought it was police,” Remmie said. “If he had a gun, it could have been a really bad thing when he was confronted by the homeowner’s father.”

This was the second time in a month that McClure’s residence was burglarized.

Yeager allegedly admitted this was the second time he had burglarized the McClure residence. “I was burglarized a month ago and I decided to look into security systems,” McClure said.

The system McClure installed is both motion and sound sensitive, triggering the cameras and then sending an alert to the phone, according to McClure.

The system saved McClure from losing the computer, headphones, an Xbox 360 with games, a Bose speaker, cordless screwdriver and a box of Crown Royal Whiskey, among other items inside a backpack seized as evidence.

After he was apprehended and was being searched Yeager told police he had two crack pipes in his shoe.

Yeager is in jail on $60,000 straight cash bond.