LIME CITY – A Perrysburg man was arrested Jan. 28 and charged with a total of 19 counts including
criminal trespassing, breaking and entering, and theft following a string of incidents that ended with a
mile-long foot chase with police.
According to Perrysburg Township Police, the incident was reported at 3:17 p.m. A police officer
discovered bicycle tracks in the area of Thompson and Roachton Roads and followed them to a small bridge
north of Five Point Road, where the bicycle had been thrown over the side. Due to recent thefts in the
area, another officer was contacted. Two officers followed shoe prints in the snow to a residence in the
9800 block of Five Point Road and there reportedly observed Dennis Yeupell Jr., 20, Perrysburg, exiting
a vehicle and entering another.
When the officers attempted to sneak up on him, Yeupell began running north and led officers on a chase
of approximately a mile through a number of properties, down a frozen creek and over roadways, at times
through shin-deep snow. Wood County Sheriff’s deputies and Perrysburg City officers were contacted to
help in setting up a perimeter. Two Township officers and a deputy eventually chased Yeupell into an
area where a second deputy was waiting, and he was ordered to the ground and arrested.
Yeupell reportedly entered or attempted to enter eight vehicles and took a credit card from one of them,
broke the window of a barn, attempted to enter another barn, entered a garage and a shed, stole a
bicycle from a shed which he used in some of the incidents, and entered a number of other properties.
The incidents occurred in the 24000 and 25000 blocks of Thompson Road, the 9300, 9800 and 9900 blocks of
Five Point Road, the 10000 block of Roachton Road, and the 10000 block of Lime City Road. Seventeen
properties in all were involved. Additional items, one of which was determined to be from a theft in the
9800 block of Five Point Road reported Jan. 25, were later located at Yeupell’s residence.
Yeupell was charged with eight counts of criminal trespassing, five counts of felony breaking and
entering, and one count each of felony theft, petty theft, criminal damaging, aggravated trespassing,
obstruction of official business, and receiving stolen property.
On Feb. 16, a Wood County grand jury indicted Yeupell on two counts of breaking and entering at separate
Perrysburg addresses for his actions on the date of his arrest. His case has been assigned to the
courtroom of Judge Robert Pollex.
