On 3/9/26, at 0746 hours, Maplewood Police responded to a report of a theft from auto that occurred overnight at [ADDRESS REDACTED] in Maplewood, Ramsey County. Police spoke to the complainant DAS, who said that at about 0445-0455 hours two males broke into his GMC Sierra (MN/ZZP872) that was parked in his driveway. DAS had Ring door video of the incident. The first suspect was a black male wearing a black and white letterman style jacket with a large "B" on the front, jeans, and black shoes. This suspect was later identified as Maurice Earl WILLIAMS Jr. [DOB REDACTED]. The second suspect was a white male with facial hair wearing a black jacket, black pants, white shoes, and a black belt with red studs.
This suspect was later identified as Alex John DAMICO [DOB REDACTED]. Stolen from DAS’ vehicle was a black North Face backpack (from the driver’s side rear seat), a Lenovo laptop (valued at $2,000), a pair of Apple AirPods (valued at $200) and an Apple Watch (from the center console; valued at $250). The video showed WILLIAMS walking up DAS’ driveway. He pulled on the door handle of a white SUV, which was locked, and then tried the GMC’s driver’s door. The door opened and WILLIAMS entered the driver’s seat.
WILLIAMS went through the center console, took something, which he put it in his jacket pocket. WILLIAMS then continued searching near the radio and in the glove box and took an unknown item. WILLIAMS then exited the driver’s seat with the unknown item in his right hand. Finally, WILLIAMS entered the rear driver’s side door where DAS’ backpack was located. The video ends, but when it restarts, DAMICO is seen running up the driveway, opening the GMC’s driver’s side rear door, grabbing DAS’s backpack, and running to meet up with WILLIAMS. DAS was able to track his stolen AirPods, which were pinging to 703 Bedford #1 St in St. Paul, Ramsey County.
Maplewood Detectives went there and made contact with adult residents who allowed them into the home. The Detectives explained why they were there and followed the Air Pods pinging signal to a bedroom. With permission, they entered the bedroom and found DAMICO and WILLIAMS. WILLIAMS and DAMICO matched the Ring video images of the suspects including the clothes they were wearing. The unique black and white letterman style jacket with the large "B" that WILLIAMS was wearing on the Ring video was lying on the bedroom floor.
After being shown screenshots of them stealing the property and asking them for the stolen backpack, WILLIAMS asked DAMICO where he put "it" and DAMICO motioned toward a nearby closet. In the closet, hidden under clothes, Detectives found DAS’ North Face backpack. In the backpack, among other things, Detectives found DAS’ AirPods and his Lenovo Thinkpad Laptop. During the interaction, WILLIAMS denied taking anything but made several excited utterances like "I was doing dumb s***" and “He (DAMICO) took the bag.” DAMICO confessed to taking the bag and was taken into custody.
