Man accused of burglarizing Parma Police Department

PARMA, Mo. — A Southeast Missouri man is accused of a burglary targeting a most unlikely place — a police department.

The Sikeston Standard Democrat reported New Madrid County deputies were called Tuesday after an employee of Parma saw a man sitting on a table in the police evidence room.

The suspect was gone by the time deputies arrived. A back door had been pried open, the evidence room was ransacked, and several guns were in a backpack, with other guns propped nearby.

Sheriff Terry Stevens said deputies found the suspect, Anthony Leisure, a short time later, in possession of a handgun magazine and several drug field-testing kits.

Leisure is charged with second-degree burglary and is jailed on $25,000 bond.

Information from: Standard Democrat, http://www.standard-democrat.com

Pertinent address:

Parma, Mo.