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.