Family Friend Turns Out to Be Party to Burglary, Police Say

Burglary charges have been filed against a man and his girlfriend from Oconomowoc accused of breaking into the Brookfield home of a lifelong friend of the young woman's mother.

The victim said he had often, and recently, helped out his friend's daughter with financial support.

In a case just short of a year old, Calvin G. Rolbiecki Dobson, 30, and Natasha B. Harland, now 19, were charged last Friday in Waukesha County Circuit Court.

Dobson is charged with burglary and as a repeat offender, having been convicted in 2008 of dealing cocaine. As such, he could face up to 12 years, six months in prison on the burglar charge and up to six more years as a repeat felon.

Harland is charged as party to the crime of burglary, punishable by up to 12 years and six months.

According to the criminal complaint:

On May 29, 2012, a resident of the 17100 block of West Burleigh Place reported his home broken into and property missing. He had just returned from a Memorial Day trip and found a rear window smashed in and electronic equipment – a new 47-inch TV, a DVD/VCR combo machine, and a desktop computer with monitor and printer – stolen.

He also told dispatchers he had found a wet mop on the floor, and it appeared someone had been trying clean something up.

After officers looked through the home, the resident told them he had three suspects in mind: a woman he had known since she was 8 years old, her boyfriend, and her daughter, Natasha Harland, whom he believed to have a drug problem.

The victim said that both mother and daughter had recently complained to him of money troubles, and on May 23, Harland, then 18, came to his home to ask for money. Her boyfriend, whom he did not know, waited in the car. That man would later prove to have been Dobson.

The victim followed them to a gas station and bought them $40 worth of gasoline and two $20 phone cards.

On May 28, while away visiting his own family in La Crosse, the victim got a text from Harland's phone, asking, "Hey (blank), what are you doing for Memorial Day?" He thought that odd because she already knew he would be out of town.

After finding his home burglarized, the victim spoke to his old friend, and she told him she also suspected her daughter. She said Harland had stolen $700 from her home and had been turned out. She also said her daughter had a boyfriend named Calvin.

Police had recovered finger and palm prints at the crime scene. When the results came back from the State Crime Lab, they were identified as those of Calvin G. Rolbiecki Dobson.

Detectives next questioned Harland, and she told them she had been living with Dobson at his mother's house, and she had left her phone behind with him on May 28.

Harland said that later, Dobson had said, "Oh baby, I hit a lick," meaning he had gotten some property to sell for drug money. To her surprise and dismay, she said, the property turned out to belong to her mother's old friend and her own benefactor.

Harland told detectives she talked Dobson into taking the TV and computer back to the owner's home before he returned, but when they got there, all they did was mop up blood Dobson had spilled after cutting himself while breaking in.

She said she believed Dobson had texted the victim on her phone to ascertain that he was really out of town.