Eagan Woman Charged in Connection with Lakeville School Burglary

An Eagan woman has been charged in connection with a series of thefts from Eagan homes and a school in Lakeville.

Brianna Marie Sieg, 21, faces a felony charge of receiving stolen property, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

According to the criminal complaint, police were initially called to a on March 11 by an employee who said that when she arrived at school that morning, she opened the front doors and discovered several laptop computers missing. The employee provided the computers’ serial numbers.

On April 20, Eagan police were called to an apartment complex in the 4000 block of Slater Road by a man who said he had put his car in the garage the night before, locked the doors and closed the garage door with a remote control.

When he returned to the car the next morning, he found the trunk of the car open, and the stereo, front console, amplifiers, subwoofers and a backpack containing a laptop computer missing from the car. Police determined that someone had apparently crawled through open rafters in the garage to get to the car.

On April 28, police were again called to the Slater Road apartment complex and met with another resident, who said he had gone into his garage that morning and discovered tools missing, including an air ratchet, an air chisel, a pneumatic air kit, a jigsaw, an electric stapler and a cordless drill.

He told police that a folded air mattress had been knocked to the floor, and it appeared that the suspect came in through the garage’s open rafters.

A subsequent investigation identified Sieg – who had been living in the Slater Road apartment complex – as a possible suspect in the burglaries.

Police executed a search warrant at Sieg’s apartment on May 5 and found one of the laptops stolen from the Lakeville school, along with a stolen subwoofer and CD player, according to the complaint. A car parked in Sieg’s garage was not registered to her, the complaint says.

On May 20, a manager at the apartment complex told police that Sieg had vacated the apartment and left some items inside, including the electric stapler that had been reported stolen.