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Forsyth Township man arrested on home invasion, weapons charges

GWINN, MI--   A Gwinn man is jailed on a home invasion charge. 

Forsyth Township Police say Tuesday around noon they responded to the 200 block of North Brooks Lane on a report of a breaking and entering in progress. The caller said she saw a man with a bandana over his face walk up her driveway, enter her unattached garage, and leave shortly afterward.

Officers followed footsteps to a neighboring residence and found a door had been forced open. They entered the house and encountered a male suspect armed with a pistol. Kirk Bragenzer, 27, of Gwinn was arrested without incident. Police say he’d collected valuables and weapons, and had doused a pile of clothes in the garage with gasoline.

Bragenzer is charged with 1st-degree home invasion, arson – preparation to burn a dwelling, receiving and concealing firearms, breaking and entering a building with intent, larceny of firearms, felony firearms, and being a habitual offender.

He remains lodged at the Marquette County Jail.

Nicole was born near Detroit but has lived in the U.P. most of her life. She graduated from Marquette Senior High School and attended Michigan State and Northern Michigan Universities, graduating from NMU in 1993 with a degree in English.