Gasp! "Underwear Bandit" has priors
[It appears that the aptly named Rusty Wayne Sills has had a history of stealing unmentionables/delicates going back to the Carter Administration. Young Rusty had his first arrested for this back in 1979. To be followed up with another arrest in 1983 and 1999 for the same offense. Although we was "well known" to Des Moines Police and he had these priors through the years Rusty was still able to gain employment in the area as a Apartment maintenance man "who used master keys to enter apartments".
Wait! did you hear that.....it's the collective ewwwwwwwwww! going around Des Moines from apartment dwelling women from 1979 to Present.
Best line from the story: "Police had so many potential victims at the station in October 1979 that one detective observed: "This looks like a tryout for 'Charlie's Angels.' " Of course if something similar was said today like "It's looks like an "Entourage" audition that Detective would face dismissal and have to consent to years of re-education from the Leftist Mother Hens to keep his job.]
D.M. man charged yet again in theft of panties
Rusty Sills has been linked to a series of such pilferings dating to 1979.
By REGISTER STAFF WRITER
July 30, 2005
Rusty Wayne Sills is known in police circles less as a career thief and more for what he likes to steal.Sills, 46, was arrested by West Des Moines police this week for allegedly stealing hundreds of pairs of women's underwear and shoes.It's not the first time Sills has been accused of pilfering panties and filching footwear.It was 1979 when police first explained to a nervous public that Sills had an apparent fetish that he satisfied through burglary.
Police had so many potential victims at the station in October 1979 that one detective observed: "This looks like a tryout for 'Charlie's Angels.' "Sills was convicted of burglary in Polk County in 1980 and again in 1983. In the spring of 1999, he was charged with stealing shoes from female students at Iowa State University. ISU police found 185 pairs of shoes and more than 30 single shoes in Sills' Des Moines apartment. He was convicted of theft.
Sills was arrested again in August 1999 after a series of West Des Moines break-ins. Police said he was an apartment building maintenance worker who used master keys to enter apartments.Police confiscated about 500 pairs of shoes, as well as underwear, negligees and magazines. Sills pleaded guilty of burglary. He served two years and nine months of a 10-year sentence and was released in 2002.Sills was booked Thursday at the Polk County Jail on charges of fifth-degree theft. Police said he was recorded on a surveillance camera in January as he took undergarments from the laundry room at Sun Prairie Apartments, 6699 Vista Drive, West Des Moines.
Police searched Sills' residence, 1426 York St., in Des Moines and confiscated hundreds of women's undergarments, plus socks and shoes.West Des Moines Police Lt. Jeff Miller said potential victims will be shown photographs of seized items. If they see something familiar, a detective will show them the articles."We have bags and bags of these items," Miller said.