The following is based on your complainant’s review of the reports of other officers and your complainant’s own investigation: On December 19, 2025, at about 4:30am, Ramsey County Emergency 911 received a call that a man was in a locked shop at Upper River Services, [ADDRESS REDACTED]., St. Paul, Ramsey County. The business is in an industrial area that was entirely closed at that hour. The caller said that the man appeared to be an employee, “William Fuller,” who was previously suspected as having been stealing from the business.
St. Paul Police responded and encountered a SUV driving away. It was stopped. The driver was identified as the defendant, WILLIAM CHARLES FULLER ([DOB REDACTED]). The 911 caller identified himself as the owner of the business. He said that it had experienced multiple thefts over the prior two months and that the defendant was suspected as the culprit. He said that the prior day (December 18), he had canceled the defendant’s access to the site. (He provided access logs showing that the defendant had twice that night tried unsuccessfully to scan in with an access fob.) He said that he did not know how the defendant had gained entry on this night.
The owner added that the defendant keeps a broken-down vehicle in a corner of the shop, which the defendant has been fixing. But he said that the video showed the defendant in an opposite corner, where he had no reason to be. The business includes a ship called the “Ohio” which has been converted into a separate large shop. The access logs showed that the Ohio’s exit button had been pushed at 3:51am and again at 3:54. Officers found that the exterior door to the Ohio could be bent open, allowing someone to reach in, press the exit button, and obtain access.
Inside, the frame of the Ohio’s tool room door had been broken, and the electronic latch had been partially pulled out. Photographs were taken. The owner noted that many of the tools from the business are marked with their locations. The defendant was taken into custody. Inside of his SUV was a grinder marked with the word “Ohio.” The cost to repair the damage to the Ohio tool room door is not yet known. In a Mirandized interview, the defendant claimed to have come to the business to fix his car, though he acknowledged that he had not given notice to his boss.
He provided conflicting explanations for how he had accessed the site. He admitted that he took a grinder, claiming that it was in order to fix the broken- door car. When officers pointed out that he was in fact driving away with the grinder, he then claimed that he was simply checking on the car and planned to come back later. The defendant faces a pending charge for Aggravated Robbery, for driving into an employee after having stolen merchandise from a store (Case No. 62-CR-25-2731). He also faces at least four pending Ramsey County charges for Theft – Misdemeanor; in at least one of these cases, he had previously been trespassed from the site of the theft (Case Nos. 62SU-CR-25-647, -2007, -4016, -4454).
