Kansas City, Kan. ? A federal grand jury has indicted a Hutchinson man on charges of burglarizing six airports in four states.

Michael S. Wagner, 26, is charged with three counts of interstate transportation of stolen property, two counts of wire fraud and two counts of mail fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced Thursday.

Wagner is accused of stealing from small airports in Kansas, Colorado, Texas and Oklahoma over a nine-month period.

Authorities started investigating two years ago when Wagner was found in a vehicle close to a damaged fence at the Emporia Municipal Airport.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation searched a location in Wichita where agents turned up stolen items, including laptop computers and weapons, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Investigators determined some of the stolen merchandise was sold on eBay, and buyers paid by mailing money through the U.S. Postal Service.

According to the indictment, Wagner was involved in burglaries in 2005 and 2006 at Strother Field Airport in Winfield; Municipal Airport in Ponca City, Okla.; R.L. Jones Riverside Airport in Tulsa, Okla.; Front Range Airport in Denver; and Collin County Airport in McKinney, Texas.

Stolen items cited in the indictment include laptop computers, hard drives, aviation headsets, cameras, GPS receivers, rifles, pistols, tools, radios and televisions.

If convicted, Wagner faces up to 10 years on each interstate transportation charge and a maximum of 20 years on each of the other charges.

He is serving 24 months of probation after he was convicted in September 2006 in Lyon County of three counts of burglary for airport thefts. Sixteen other charges were dismissed.

Wagner has appealed the conviction based on search and seizure issues from his arrest.

Wagner’s attorney, Charlie O’Hara, said Friday that the federal charges stem from the same issues that are on appeal.