On November 28, November 30, and December 1, 2025, Police Officers responded to a series of storage unit burglaries at Public Storage, located at [ADDRESS REDACTED], Brooklyn Park, Hennepin County. On November 28, 2025, Officers were dispatched to Public Storage and met with the renter of unit G5, J. S and D. S. J. S. Reported that someone broke the lock off of their storage unit and took several items from the unit but she did not have an estimate. On December 22, 2025, D. S. Learned that a checkbook was stolen out of unit G5 and check #1009 was written on November 27, 2025, to JAMES ALLEN HAGE, Defendant herein, for $150 and cash was withdrawn on December 2, 2025. Several vehicles that the Defendant has been associated with in the past used his Public Storage gate ID to gain access to Public Storage leading up to the date of the burglary.
The Defendant was renting unit G22 at Public Storage. He had permission to be on Public Storage property, was given an access code to the Public Storage gate onto the property, and had permission to access his rented unit, unit G22. The Defendant did not have permission to break other unit's locks and gain access to other units he was not renting. Each individual storage unit is defined under case law as a "building." On November 30, 2025, Officers were dispatched to Public Storage again on report of a burglary.
Officers met with Z. K. Who is the renter of unit G33. Z. K.'s unit lock was broken and when he checked his unit, half of the contents had been stolen with a value of approximately $5,950.00. The items included tools, golf club sets, an icehouse, e-bikes, grill, and auger. Surveillance showed a Chevrolet Silverado used the Defendant's gate code on November 29, 2025, at 0417 hours and exited at 0458 hours. Two other units, J6 and I36, also had their locks broken. The renter of unit J6, D. M., had a vehicle in the storage unit and does not believe at this time that anything was removed from the vehicle.
A tarp covering the vehicle had been taken off of the vehicle showing that someone had been in the unit. The renter of unit I36, S. C., had three locks on his unit and all three had the lock drilled out. Inside the unit was a collector truck that appeared not to be tampered with. S. C. Is missing a $200 Harbor Freight jack from his unit. On December 1, 2025, Officers returned for another burglary report at Public Storage. Employees reported that the Defendant had returned to the property in a 2004 black Chevrolet Tahoe SUV. Employees reported that the Driver of the SUV had attempted to use the Defendant's access code several times before leaving after not gaining access.
Public Storage had paused the code after the prior burglaries named him as a suspect. On December 5, 2025, Officers conducted a search warrant on the Defendant's storage unit, G22. Inside Officers located several of Z. K.'s items including his e-bikes, icehouse, grill, and other items. Officers later learned that the Defendant's Facebook account had Facebook Messages on November 15, 2025, stating that he stole from storage units and sent pictures of the items. He stated that he used his 3 27-CR-26-1055 Filed in District Court State of Minnesota 1/13/2026 code to enter Public Storage numerous times throughout the night and stated, "got the old van full of some goodies." The State is requesting this complaint issue as a warrant.
