Portland police say a 40-year-old man burglarized more than two dozen residential buildings in the city in the last three months.

Video surveillance footage captured him entering the common areas of locked apartment buildings and stealing residents’ packages, bicycles and other belongings, according to a Portland detective.

The burglaries occurred between Oct. 7 and Jan. 7, police said.

Anthony Scott Taylor often used some type of tool to break open a secured door of an apartment building, grabbed multiple packages addressed to residents and walked out with them.

He hit certain locations three times in one day, and often would return on successive days to the same building, prosecutors allege. In one, he’s accused of breaking into a secure parking garage attached to the residential building on Southeast Morrison Street and then rummaging through a Suburu Outback.

The burglaries he’s been linked to all occurred in Southeast Portland at: 1934 S.E. Morrison St., 2640 S.E. Ankeny St., 5030 S.E. Stephens St., 2350 S.E. 37th Ave., 1475 S.E. 14th Ave., 2929 S.E. Stark St., 2640 S.E. Ankeny St., and 2929 S.E. Stark St., according to police and prosecutors.

During an interview with Portland police Detective Travis Fields on Monday, Taylor admitted to the burglaries and described in detail how he’d enter the locked apartment buildings, according to a probable cause affidavit.

Taylor, 40, was arraigned in court Thursday afternoon on 28 counts of first-degree burglary.

Taylor was arraigned in Multnomah County Circuit Court Thursday afternoon on 28 counts of first-degree burglary. He’s being held at Multnomah County’s Inverness Jail and is scheduled to return to court on Jan. 27 to face an indictment.

Taylor has a prior criminal history, including six felony convictions and 13 probation violations.

He was on supervision last year in Clackamas County for identity theft.

On Dec. 20, in the course of his alleged burglary spree, he pleaded no contest in Multnomah County Circuit to possessing methamphetamine. He was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to complete a treatment program. That plea resulted from an arrest on July 9 when he was found with methamphetamine inside a running car parked in the basement lot of a Safeway on Southeast Powell Boulevard, according to court records.

-- Maxine Bernstein

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