A St. Croix County jury last week convicted a Hudson, Wis., man accused of spending the 2015 Labor Day holiday on a crime spree.

Alex James Kranz, 24, was convicted of burglary, three counts of felony theft and two misdemeanors -- theft and criminal property damage -- after a four-day trial. Jurors returned the verdict after deliberating for more than three hours.

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Kranz was accused of burglarizing a Hudson man's storage unit that contained 29 guns valued at more than $20,000 between Sept. 5-7, 2015. He was also accused of stealing property from the same man's cabin in North Hudson.

Kranz is additionally charged in connection with the Sept. 7, 2015, armed robbery of the Hudson Holiday Store. Prosecutors claim he used the same knife stolen from thegrabbed her until Mason pulled him off.

Mason said he then went to the storage unit and saw the door’s handle and locking mechanism destroyed.

“I got a real bad feeling in my stomach that something wasn’t right,” he said.

Inspection of the unit revealed all 27 of the guns he kept in a locked safe inside were gone, along with two more guns, ammo and other items. Prosecutors displayed photos of apparent pry marks found on the gun safe.

He later identified a tube from the Zombie Hunter gun as being pictured in the photo of Kranz asleep on the floor.

Mason then drove to the North Hudson cabin, which he said he found in “disarray.”

Mason said he found a window pried open and a door that appeared to have been tampered