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Suspected burglars torched a vacant rental house near York last month to distract its owner while they stole a safe, $30,000 and a cache of guns from his home, investigators said in court documents.

Authorities believe three people hauled the safe to Lincoln and divvied up the money at a suspected Lincoln drug house before taking some of the cash to a casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Two weeks later, authorities have arrested their suspects, but York County sheriff's deputies are still looking for some of the stolen stuff.

"It’s one of those deals that don’t make any sense,” Sheriff Dale Radcliff said Tuesday.

In court documents, investigators say they believe Brian D. Schall, 27 of Grand Island, and Matthew A. Aunkst, 29, and Emily N. Anderson, 22, both York, conspired to burglarize a 49-year-old man's country home.

About 11 p.m. on Feb. 21, they say, the three drove to a rental home the man owned, went in through the back door and that Aunkst poured gasoline on the floors before starting the fire. The three then drove off and parked behind a grain bin about four miles away to watch the fire, according to affidavits for Anderson's arrest.