AUBURN - A 17-year-old Auburn resident charged with breaking $46,000 worth of windows at the former C.W. Brister and Sons flour mill on North Street pleaded not guilty in Cayuga County Court Thursday to six felonies.

Cayuga County Chief Assistant District Attorney Christopher Valdina said Michael Wilson, of 151 Seymour St., is accused of breaking into the mill with a 13-year-old on two consecutive days last month and smashing 51 new windows, which is currently being renovated into apartments.

According to police reports, a worker for the property owner renovating the mill discovered that four windows were broken at 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 3. The worker told police that he left the job site at about 9:30 a.m. and that when he returned at noon nearly every window on the lower half of the building was broken.

The windows were covered by insurance, Valdina said, but the owner was responsible for a $5,000 deductible.

Wilson is also accused of burglarizing a family's Rochester Street home in Auburn while they were away at a benefit for one of their children, Valdina said.

Valdina said he believes Wilson targeted the residence because he knew the family was not home.

Wilson is charged with two counts of third-degree burglary and two counts of second-degree criminal mischief for allegedly breaking into the mill in addition to second-degree burglary and third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, all felonies, and one misdemeanor count of petit larceny for the Rochester Street incident.

The 13-year-old's case was referred to Cayuga County Family Court, police said.

Wilson remains in the Cayuga County Jail in lieu of bail, which was set at $5,000 cash or $10,000 bond.

Also in court:

• A career con-man wanted for identity theft charges in Florida pleaded guilty to second-degree felony assault for injuring a sheriff's detective while resisting arrest in the Grant Avenue Plaza parking lot last March.

John Fravel, 43, of 695 Idlewood Blvd., Baldwinsville, admitted he knew law enforcement was in the area looking for him when he attempted to flee several Onondaga County sheriff's detectives who tracked him down to Auburn.

A detective damaged the tendons in his pinky in the ensuing foot chase when he tackled Fravel, Valdina said.

Detectives used a Taser to subdue Fravel.

Fravel faces three years in prison when he is sentenced on Dec. 17.

Fravel admitted he is a second-felony offender who was convicted in Texas in 2008 of property theft and tampering with government records.

In Florida, Fravel is accused of racking up $30,562 in charges on a credit card that was stolen from a Michigan man's car in 2008.

• An 18-year-old Auburn resident who pleaded guilty to third-degree felony burglary was granted youthful offender status for stealing gas and other items from several garages and sheds last winter.

The teenager was also sentenced to five years of probation, 60 hours of community service and will have to write an apology letter to all of the victims affected by the burglaries.

The Citizen does not identify defendants who are granted youthful offender status.

• An 18-year-old Auburn resident was granted youthful offender status for second-degree felony assault.

Staff writer Nate Robson can be reached at 253-5311 ext. 248 or nathan.robson@lee.net