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Man arrested for apartment robbery

A man was arrested early Monday morning after entering unlocked apartments and stealing residents' money, police said.\nKevin D. Burchett, 22, was arrested at 4:38 a.m. Monday on preliminary charges of residential robbery and residential theft.\nA resident of the 1300 block of North Lincoln Street was sleeping when he "heard something rustling that woke him up," said Bloomington Police Department Detective Sgt. David Drake, reading from a police report. The resident found $80 missing from his wallet and witnessed someone he didn't know exiting his apartment.\nThe resident watched Burchett enter a nearby apartment and called the police. When officers arrived they entered the second apartment through the open front door and found Burchett in the bathroom, according to the report.\nOfficers woke up the six females who lived in the apartment, all of whom said they did not know Burchett. One of the females found her purse had been moved, but nothing was missing.\nIn Burchett's original statement, he told police he had met a woman named Jessica Simpson at Kilroy's Sports Bar earlier that night and that the apartment he was found in was where she told him to meet her, Drake said. He described her as a 21-year-old blonde IU student. \nThe IU Police Department later told the BPD that Jessica Simpson is not a student at IU. \nThere is no Jessica Simpson listed in the IU address book.

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