On October 27, 2025, Minneapolis Police Officers responded to a burglary report at Press Sure Print, Inc., at 600 26th Avenue NE, Minneapolis, Hennepin County. The reporting party J. W., owner, stated that between 2607 hours on October 24, 2025, and 0630 hours October 27, 2025, over the weekend, parts of their HVAC units on the top of the building had been stolen. The HVAC units are enclosed with a wooden privacy fence. A wooden ladder was found leaning against the main building and it appeared that a truck had backed up to the wooden privacy fence, someone had climbed into the enclosure, and began dismantling the Trane 15 ton HVAC unit by cutting the metal, throwing it over the fence, and then hauled away.
The HVAC unit is valued at $80,000. The fence was not damaged and remained locked. Friction ridge impressions were recovered from the top of the HVAC system near the fans. On October 27, 2025, the Minneapolis Forensic Services Division was able to compare sufficient impressions that resulted in an ABIS match to PAUL WILLIAM BREKKESTRAN, Defendant herein. On October 22, 2025, the Defendant is charged in a similar theft of HVAC copper piping from Eastside Food Co-Op located at [ADDRESS REDACTED] Northeast, Minneapolis.
Eastside Food Co-Op and Press Sure Print, Inc. Are 0.6 miles apart from each other, approximately 11 minutes in walking distance, and both are right off of 26th Avenue Northeast. On October 30, 2025, Officers were able to ID the Defendant in the surveillance video in the October 22, 2025, burglary in Hennepin County Attorney's file number 25A13042 through the Defendant's mother, J. B. J. B. Stated that the Defendant had recently left a rehabilitation program for a fentanyl addiction. J. B. Believed that the Defendant had been in Minneapolis area but does not have a phone or a permanent address.
The Defendant is currently out of custody. The State is requesting that this complaint issue as a warrant given the multiple cases he is a suspect in, and he does not have an address to send a summons to.
