DODGE CITY – Law enforcement authorities in Ford County are investigating a string of a dozen residential burglaries.

According to a media release, just before 2 a.m. on Tuesday, police officers and deputies were dispatched to the 2100 block of Fairway for a reported residential burglary.

As officers were investigating this incident they received more reports of burglaries in the area. Officers searched the area and just before 5a.m., officers found a suspect in the alley east of McCoy Street and after a brief foot chase he was captured and arrested in the 2000 Block of Fairway.

He was arrested for the following alleged crimes
: Aggravated Burglary, 
Theft,
 and Criminal Damage
.

The suspect’s name is being withheld pending the filing of formal charges with the Ford County Attorney.

Upon further investigation a search warrant was obtained for 3208 Louise in Dodge City and on Wednesday, The Dodge City Police Department Special Operations Response Team executed the search warrant and arrested 2 suspects on warrants unrelated to the burglary spree.

At this time the investigation continues into this burglary spree according to Chief of Police 
Craig Mellecker.