KC man facing several charges in Moniteau County

A man from Kansas City is facing several charges after being captured early Tuesday in Moniteau County.

According to reports from the Moniteau County Sheriff's Department, In the early morning hours of Tuesday, deputies and Jamestown Police Department officers responded to a call of a burglary in progress at the Watering Hole Bar in Jamestown.

The caller advised that they had come to open the bar and found a someone inside, who then fled the bar and the employee gave chase on foot.

The suspect was identified as Irvin J. Rill, 59, of Kansas City. He managed to get to his truck and fled the area, running through a ditch and a fence on the way out of town heading south on Missouri 87.

Deputies then arrived in the area and tracked the vehicle to Wingate Ford Road which is located a couple of miles south of Jamestown. Upon checking the area deputies along with Jamestown police did locate Rill's vehicle which had sustained damage to the front end and rear tire, with no one found around it.

Deputies then set a perimeter around the area and began searching for the suspect in the wooded areas along Wingate Ford. While searching, deputies did locate Rill approximately 150 yards in the woods, chased him down and took him into custody.

Deputies were able to recover the burglary tools used in the break in at the bar laying in a brush pile across the street from the bar in town. Also recovered was a glass smoking device which tested positive for methamphetamines.

As of Tuesday ,Rill was being held at the Moniteau County Jail on several felony warrants for burglary out of Missouri, Arkansas and Pennsylvania. Rill is facing charges of first-degree  burglary, stealing, possession of drugs, property damage and possession of burglary tools in Moniteau County.