Woman charged with strange break-in

WASILLA — A broken window and a pair of break-ins landed a 43-year-old woman in jail.

According to an affidavit Alaska State Trooper Jesse Lopez filed in the case against Sharon McGuire, troopers were summonsed to Camino Cielo Drive on the north side of Wasilla at 5:24 p.m., Aug. 18. A woman reported that an intoxicated stranger had entered her garage.

“When she confronted the woman, she left on foot and was observed entering (a) residence (on) Tierra Grande Drive,” Lopez wrote.

According to Google Maps, the second house was about 500 feet from the first.

Lopez wrote that when he got to the scene, he talked to the initial caller and to a man who said he knew the strange woman; she was his ex-girlfriend, Sharon McGuire, and she was living at the place on Tierra Grande.

Lopez said he checked out the Tierra Grande house but couldn’t find McGuire. He talked to a neighbor who said he hadn’t seen her leave, but would call Lopez if she came back.

Just before 7:45 p.m., troopers got that second call from the neighbor.

“He could see a woman wearing black jump pants and a grey sweatshirt with red hair was currently using a propane tank to break out the window” of a house on Holly Way, Lopez wrote.

Holly Way is about 1,000 feet from Tierra Grande, connected, apparently, by a trail.

The neighbor on the phone with troopers described watching McGuire clear the window of broken glass and climb into the house.

“I arrived on scene and observed a broken window,” Lopez wrote.

He said that as he walked around the house he saw another trooper dash toward the back door.

“I quickly followed. As I turned the corner to the rear of the house, I observed a woman, later identified as Sharon McGuire, standing on the back patio,” Lopez wrote.

McGuire had a cut on her left hand and a handful of explanations. Her first was that she lived there and her purse was inside.

“But she would not provide her name,” Lopez reports.

Next she said she had permission to stay there. Lopez said he called the homeowners, had them come back home, and they said they didn’t know McGuire or give her permission to stay there.

“Later McGuire said she was just walking on the trail and didn’t do anything,” Lopez wrote.

According to court records, McGuire is charged with felony burglary and misdemeanor criminal mischief. Her criminal record is very short, containing a handful of traffic tickets and a four-year-old drunken driving conviction.

Contact reporter Andrew Wellner at andrew.wellner@frontiersman.com or 352-2270.