USA TODAY NETWORK - Wisconsin

SHEBOYGAN - A 28-year-old Sheboygan man was arrested following an alleged drug-fueled crime spree that involved a vehicle theft, breaking into buildings, attempted arson and damage to several buildings.

Kyle A. Bennin was charged with two felonies, arson of a building and burglary to a building, and several misdemeanors including disorderly conduct, taking a vehicle without owner's consent and multiple counts of criminal damage to property.

According to the criminal complaint:

At 1:31 a.m. Jan. 12, officers investigated an auto theft on Center Avenue in Sheboygan. The owner said he had left his vehicle running to warm it up and went back inside, but came out a few minutes later to see his vehicle, which was unlocked with they keys in the ignition, pulling out of the driveway.

The vehicle was found shortly after stuck in the snow near the 1200 block of New York Avenue. Police made contact with Bennin at the scene, who was only wearing shorts, a polo shirt and shoes with no socks.

Bennin told officers he stole the car earlier that evening after snorting a line of heroin at a friend's house. He said he couldn't get the taste of heroin out of his mouth, so he snorted crystal methamphetamine and went for a walk, at which point he saw a vehicle running in a driveway with no one around. He told officers he "thought to himself that maybe this was the adventure he was looking for" and took the vehicle, but later got it stuck in the snow.

Bennin was arrested, charged with a misdemeanor and released.

Then at 10 a.m. the same day, officers were called to an apartment complex on the 800 block of North 9th Street in reference to a suspicious person.

Upon arrival, officers made contact with an Alliant Energy employee who had been called to the apartment building because the power was out. In the electrical room, the employee found that all the breakers had been turned off, a seal had been broken, and all the wires had been ripped out of an alarm box.

Officers also found evidence of an arson attempt in the corner of the room. There was a smell of burnt paper and evidence of a fire was found in the corner of the electrical room near an alarm box that had been tampered with.

A glass door that leads off of Ninth Street into the underground parking lot of the building had also been broken.

Officers made contact with Bennin at the building, who had small cuts all over his arms and legs and was not wearing any shoes.

When asked why he pulled the wiring from the smoke detector and ripped the conduit, Bennin initially told officers "it had to do with Trinity Lutheran Church," but did not say anything further. He later told officers that he pulled out the wires because he “gets a bad vibe from that building and thought that there may be vampires or a pedophile inside.”

Officers then found that the Trinity Lutheran Church, across the street from the apartment complex, had also been damaged.

During the investigation, a woman told police that Bennin had knocked on her apartment door, located on North Water Street, at around 1 a.m. She said that he was fondling himself when she answered the door. Surveillance video of the incident confirmed the woman's account.

Bennin admitted to touching himself and said methamphetamine increases his libido and “kind of made him go off the rails.”

Bennin is due in court Jan. 25 for a preliminary hearing on the charges.