Friday, April 18, 2008

Roseville auto burglars profit from easy access

Vehicle owners appeared to give burglars free reign in Roseville last weekend.

Fourteen vehicles or garages left unlocked the night of April 11 allowed thieves to take purses, wallets, checkbooks, credit cards, loose change, sunglasses, clothing, cell phones, iPods and a laptop computer, police reported.

A 15th vehicle, which had been locked, was broken into by smashing the window, said police spokeswoman Dee Dee Gunther, who expressed dismay that so many vehicles had been left unlocked.

"We must stop giving concierge service to thieves," she said.

Gunther urged residents to park their vehicles inside a locked garage or to lock any vehicle left outside. She also cautioned residents not to leave valuable items, including garage door openers, inside the vehicles.

The thieves hit seven vehicles in the Quail Glen neighborhood, Gunther said. Two of the vehicles were parked inside garages, but the owners had left their garages or side doors unlocked, allowing the burglars to walk in, she said.

Six vehicle burglaries occurred the same night on Halley Glen Drive in the Highland Reserve neighborhood and the two other burglaries occurred on Jennifer Circle in the Diamond Oaks section of town, she said.

By Art Campos - acampos@sacbee.com

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Suspected burglar arrested; large cache of stolen property recovered



(This is a better link for the story I just posted previously today)



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE #08-22

Subject : Suspected burglar arrested; large cache of stolen property recovered
Contact : Dee Dee Gunther, Police Public Information Officer (916)774-5015
ddgunther@roseville.ca.us


On Sunday, April 6, a Roseville police officer arrested a man suspected of committing several burglaries in the east Roseville area since last fall.

Sunday morning, Roseville Police Officer Marzolf knocked on doors in the Smith Lane and Conroy Lane, off Sunrise Avenue, looking for information about a man on probation named Jeremiah Mallory. Officer Marzolf was aware of several recent thefts from vehicles in the east Roseville area, and that a man resembling Mallory frequented the area and had been seen in the area of at least one of the crimes.

At approximately 10 a.m., Officer Marzolf spotted Mallory riding a bicycle on Sunrise Avenue near Conroy Lane, and arrested him on a Sacramento County warrant. Officer Marzolf and other officers then searched a nearby apartment where Mallory had been staying, and discovered a large cache of suspected stolen property, including numerous cell phones, GPS navigation units, handheld electronic gaming devices, music players, and other items.

Jeremiah Joseph Mallory, 34, of Weed, CA, was arrested on suspicion of possession of stolen property, violation of probation, possession of a switchblade knife, and a Sacramento County warrant for DUI. Mallory is being held in the Placer County Jail in lieu of $75,500 bail.

Investigation staff are cataloging the recovered items and combing through crime reports, matching stolen property to victims. So far, they have matched the property to at least seven thefts from vehicles or garage burglaries in east Roseville.

Investigations lieutenant Moore said, "We know that burglary and theft victims will be anxious to find out if we've recovered their stolen property. I encourage them to be patient and wait for our staff to call them. So far, the property we have matched was all stolen from east Roseville, not far from where this suspect was staying. Many of the recovered items, like cell phones, are fairly easy for our staff to trace to their owners."

Big robbery bust! - Camera's image, officer's hunch lead to Roseville arrest

If anyone has had some stolen items from their house in the past few months, you might want to go talk to the Roseville PD. They just busted a guy who was seen in the neighborhood.

Camera's image, officer's hunch lead to Roseville arrest
By Art Campos - acampos@sacbee.com

A home surveillance camera's fleeting image of a burglar and a police officer's hunch led to an arrest in a rash of vehicle break-ins in east Roseville.

Officer Keith Marzolf knew that a man on probation - who resembled the image - had been seen in the area for about a month, said Dee Dee Gunther, a police spokeswoman.

On Sunday, Marzolf got his break. He spotted the man on a bicycle at 10 a.m. on Sunrise Avenue near Conroy Lane, stopped him, checked an apartment in which he was staying and found numerous items believed to have been taken in the burglaries, Gunther said.

Jeremiah Joseph Mallory, 34, of Weed was arrested on suspicion of possessing stolen property, possession of a switchblade knife and violation of probation, she said. Mallory also was held on a Sacramento County warrant for drunken driving, she said. He is being held in the Placer County jail in Auburn in lieu of $75,500 bail.

Among the more than 70 items found in Mallory's apartment were cell phones, GPS navigation units, handheld gaming devices and music players, Gunther said. Investigators have matched property to at least seven thefts from vehicles and garages in east Roseville, she said.