Burnsville Man Charged with Burglarizing Lakeville Home

A Burnsville man has been charged with burglary after police say he broke into a Lakeville home in March, stole jewelry and sold it at a Burnsville pawn shop.

Matthew Vaughn Diamond, 20, faces a felony charge of second-degree burglary, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $20,000 fine.

According to the criminal complaint, Lakeville police were called to a home on Lucerne Trail on March 7 after residents reported that someone had gone through the house while they were gone and taken items. 

Police found fresh footprints in the snow near the home’s dog door that didn’t belong to any of the home’s occupants.

While investigating the burglary, the officer learned that a pillowcase full of items had been found outside a restaurant earlier that day. One of the burglarized home’s residents identified the items as some of those that had been taken.

Lakeville police consulted with a Scott County sheriff’s detective who was investigating some similar daytime burglaries and had identified Diamond as a suspect.

The footprints outside the Lakeville home’s dog door matched one of Diamond’s shoes, according to the complaint. On March 9, a resident of the burglarized home identified jewelry that Diamond had pawned in Burnsville as some of the items that were missing.

Police interviewed Diamond on June 15. He told them he had been “struggling with a drug addiction” and didn’t remember the specifics of the Lakeville burglary, according to the complaint.

Diamond said he did remember that he was driving his girlfriend’s car at the time and that he had dumped the pillowcase in the trash and pawned some of the jewelry.