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<p>PLAINS TWP. &#8212; A township man was jailed without bail at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility late Tuesday on charges he burglarized a house trailer and swiped a Samsung Galaxy tablet.</p><p>Township police say they recovered the tablet inside a vehicle that Todd Michael Fischer Jr., 24, was driving. The tablet was tracked by an installed theft device.</p><p>Fischer was arraigned by District Judge Joseph Spagnuolo Jr. in Plains Township on charges of burglary, receiving stolen property and driving with a suspended license. Spagnuolo did not set bail due to Fischer being on probation for a drug offense in Wilkes-Barre Township and a lengthy criminal record, court records say.</p><p>Here are more details from a criminal complaint:</p><p>Police investigated a burglary at a house trailer on Owl Court, East Ridge Mobile Home Park, on Dec. 13 when the owner returned home and noticed the front door was open and damage to the door frame.</p><p>Cash and a Samsung tablet were stolen.</p><p>After the burglary, a family relative activated an installed theft device in the tablet that tracked it to a fast-food restaurant on Kidder Street, Wilkes-Barre, for several hours and later in the area of Second Street. Police were unable to find the tablet at the restaurant.</p><p>The tablet continued to be tracked to Route 315, Laird Street and Second Street where Fischer was stopped while operating a vehicle. A tablet inside Fischer&#8217;s vehicle had the same serial number as the tablet stolen from the house trailer.</p><p>Police went to Fischer&#8217;s residence and interviewed his girlfriend Krista Lee Montigney on Tuesday.</p><p>Montigney claimed Fisher arrived home just before Christmas with $1,700 and jewelry he told her he found.</p><p>Montigney did not believe Fischer and kept asking where he got the cash and jewelry. She claimed Fischer told her he went to a house trailer, knocked on a door, and entered when no one answered. He then stole money and jewelry from inside.</p><p>Fischer told Montigney he fled the trailer when he heard a noise in a bedroom.</p><p>Montigney told police Fischer kept watches, jewelry and coins in a kitchen cabinet. The items recovered from the cabinet were identified as items stolen in other burglaries, the complaint says.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Ed Lewis</p><p>elewis@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div>

Plains man jailed without bail for possessing stolen property