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A suspect has been arrested in connection with a series of burglaries that have occurred throughout the past several weeks across the Swinomish Reservation.

Swinomish Police Chief Rick Balam said a man in his 20s was arrested Friday and will face prosecution for burglary.

Police served a Swinomish Tribal Court search warrant on Friday at an address in Swinomish Village and recovered some of the stolen property.

In all, about a dozen homes were burglarized in the neighborhoods around Snee-Oosh and Pull-&-Be Damned roads and the Hope Island areas. Seven of the burglaries occurred in one 24-hour...