The criminal cases continue to mount against a Butler Township man jailed in April soon after he was nabbed allegedly breaking into a scrap yard.

State police on Wednesday charged 26-year-old Joseph M. Gibson with six previous break-ins at the same Oakland Township business.

Additionally, troopers this week charged Gibson with stealing marine batteries from a boat store in Oakland Township and burglarizing a home earlier this year.

The defendant, who is in the Butler County Prison on $38,000 bail, now faces a long list of burglary and theft-related charges in six separate cases.

The suspect has been in the jail since April 25 when troopers caught him carrying four buckets filled with $2,400 worth of copper wiring and scrap in woods near Bob’s Salvage and Auto on Route 38 in Oakland Township.

Police suspect he broke into the salvage yard and stole the scrap.

He is awaiting trial in the case on charges of burglary, theft, criminal mischief and trespass.

On Wednesday, investigators accused Gibson of a half dozen other break-ins and thefts at the business between March 25 and April 20.

He admitted to those crimes, according to court documents, during an interview with police Oct. 13.

During that same interview, police said, the defendant confessed to burglarizing a house Jan. 4 in the 400 block of West Danville Road in Oakland Township

Gibson said he opened a window and climbed into the home, stealing a purse that contained about $1,000, documents said.

Troopers said he also confessed to stealing 20 marine batteries from Bob Warren Boat Sales on Route 38 in Oakland Township between March 18 and 21.

He allegedly admitted taking the batteries during daylight hours, and later selling them for cash at a local recycling center, police said.

Arraignment is pending on charges in those three cases filed this week.

Gibson is also awaiting trial on felony theft charges for allegedly bouncing six checks between Sept. 4 and Nov. 27, 2010, at the Fairground Market in Prospect.

State police said those checks, which totaled $423.48, were written on a closed or frozen account.

In a third case that is pending trial, Gibson is accused of stealing seven checks in December 2010 from his grandmother’s home in Butler Township, and using the checks to buy $660 in merchandise at two area stores.

Township police charged him with theft, receiving stolen property and seven counts of identity theft.