A 34-year-old man broke into a St. Paul police station, stole a police radio and used it to taunt a dispatcher, according to a criminal complaint filed this week.

Jason Bradley Phyle of St. Francis, Minn., parked a Ford Crown Victoria at the back of Herberger’s on Sunday about 3 p.m. and jumped the fence to the police department’s Western District office on Hamline Avenue, the complaint said.

According to the complaint, he forced open an employee-only entrance, went through officers’ belongings and took a police radio. Phyle later told police he was getting “nervous” about being inside the police station and he left at 3:09 p.m., running across the street to the Target on University Avenue.

Phyle used the radio to speak to police dispatch. “He claimed he had been chased at high speeds in Wisconsin and into St. Paul by unknown males,” the complaint said. “He admitted to police dispatch that he … was using an officer’s (radio), then laughed about it.”

Phyle told dispatch that he was inside Target and was wearing red and tan, the complaint said. Officers saw Phyle leaving the store with the radio and arrested him at 3:16 p.m.

“Police noted Phyle seemed very paranoid and exhibited other indications he was high on an illegal substance,” the complaint said. Phyle told police he snorted methamphetamine a day earlier, before he picked up his minor son.

Police received information that Phyle’s son was supposed to be with him and they searched for the boy, including checking the trunk of Phyle’s car, before police “finally discovered that Phyle had dropped the son off with a female friend in Hudson, Wis., and the child was unharmed,” the complaint said. Related Articles Minneapolis man pleads guilty to torching University Avenue business during May unrest

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After his arrest, Phyle repeated the story about being chased by unknown males into St. Paul.

“He said he hoped law enforcement would pull him over due to his high speeds” and that he went into the police building, yelling for people, though no one responded. He said he tried to call 911, but only got a busy signal, and then he took a police radio, the complaint continued.

The county attorney’s office charged Phyle with second-degree burglary of a government building. He was released Tuesday from the Ramsey County jail with conditions.

An attorney for Phyle was not listed in a court record and Phyle could not be reached for comment Wednesday. He has at least five felony burglary convictions in Minnesota, between 2008 and 2012, according to the complaint filed Monday.