CHAPEL HILL – It took less than 24 hours to track down a man suspected of breaking and entering at multiple businesses in Southern Village.

Chapel Hill Police arrested 33-year-old Caleb Hopkirk-Ridlen Hill on 13 felony charges including breaking and entering, larceny, and injury to real property. The break-ins occurred early Thursday morning in the Market Street area of Southern Village.

“We received some surveillance footage of this case. […] Yesterday evening he was located I believe again on Market Street,”  says Lieutenant Kevin Gunter of the Chapel Hill Police Department.

Hill was held in the Orange County Jail on a $25,000 secured bond.

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