TUCSON, AZ (Tucson News Now) -
Pima County Sheriff's deputies say they
caught a cornered criminal who tried to dig his way out of trouble when his
back was against the wall.
The bust happened at The Best Western off Oracle Road in Oro Valley. Adam Lohse is now facing a
laundry list of charges including burglary, operating a chop shop and forgery
after a bizarre take down.
Lohse tried digging his
way out of the room through a wall and even the ceiling. But he wasn't able to get too far. When deputies got
inside the room, they found jewelry, credit cards and other valuables that
didn't belong to him.
They connected him to
several other burglaries, pus other departments had been after him for some
time. And just this week a grand jury indicted him on 18 charges.
This all started when
deputies received a tip that Lohse was staying at the hotel. Lohse's
girlfriend came to the door and said he was in there and then shut the door.
Deputies arrested her but
the charges were dropped. Detectives say this sort
of case is a first.
"I don't know what he was thinking. If
he was going to be able to get into the next room. And then make his way out.
The place was completely surrounded with officers. And deputies. So, either way
he was going to wait a long time in the other room and uh deputies were going
to figure out he was there either way," said Det. Jesus Banuelos, with the Pima County Sheriff's department.
Lohse has a criminal history for DUI, drugs and fleeing police.
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