Sunday, January 8, 2012

60 Rocklin homes broken into within 4 months

ROCKLIN, CA - Burglars in the Rocklin area went on a four month spree, where they hit 60 homes in 120 days.

The homes were broken into by burglars by kicking in the front door or smashing the rear sliding door window, Rocklin Police Spokesperson Michael Nottoli said.

Burglaries at homes in Loomis, Granite Bay, Folsom and Citrus Heights had similar damage.

Details surrounding the burglaries were not released by police

Nottoli said Granite Bay had 28 home burglaries, where a door was kicked in for entry.

Rocklin police are asking people to be aware of suspicious people and vehicles in their neighborhoods and to report the activity to Rocklin police.

Anyone with information about the burglaries is urged to call Rocklin police at (916) 625-5400.

News10/KXTV

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Suspected car burglar caught in Roseville

-Roseville Press Tribune

A suspected car burglar is in custody at Placer County jail after leading Roseville police on a neighborhood search that lasted more than one hour.

Justin Karl Sennert, 23, of Paradise, allegedly broke the window of a locked vehicle in the 600 block of Lilly Cross Drive and stole a purse shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday, according to Dee Dee Gunther of the Roseville Police Department.

Gunther said neighbors witnessed the burglary and reported the suspect, a white male wearing baggy blue jeans and a gray sweatshirt, fleeing through a backyard.

Sennert evaded police for more than one hour by running through and hiding in neighborhood backyards, Gunther said.

Roseville police, with the help of an off-duty Auburn police detective and a Placer County Sheriff canine deputy, conducted a yard-to-yard search in the area where Sennert had last been seen, Gunther said.

Sennert was finally located under a pile of pillows in a shed that he had locked behind himself in the backyard of a Grider Drive home, Gunther said.

Sennert was ordered out and taken into custody without incident, Gunther said. Officers also located the victim’s purse with all of its contents and returned it to the victim.

Sennert is being held in the Placer County Jail without bail on suspicion of burglary, trespassing, possessing stolen property and parole violation.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Theft from Car on Kensington on March 25

03/25/2010 09:15 AM

Larceny-theft/ Except Motor Vehicle Theft

Case number: 100003695

No further details.

Friday, April 2, 2010

Blood, window punch lead Rocklin police to burglary suspects

By Chelsea Phua
cphua@sacbee.com

Two vehicle burglary suspects left behind drops of blood and a burglary tool, and then attracted the attention of a Rocklin police officer by failing to turn on the headlights of their getaway vehicle while driving in the dark, police said.

Authorities said Amar Deep Singh and Shaneel Satwar Lal broke the window and door lock of a vehicle in the parking lot of a shopping mall at 2110 Sunset Blvd. shortly before 6:35 a.m. Monday. The victim was inside a business for about two minutes.

Police said they found drops of blood and a metal window punch - an instrument used to shatter the window - inside the victim's vehicle.

Less than 30 minutes later, an officer spotted a red Isuzu Rodeo that did not have its headlights turned on and it was still dark, police said. The officer pulled over the vehicle and saw that the passenger, Lal, had a cut on his left hand and was bleeding. She also discovered that the driver, Singh, had a metal window punch identical to the one found inside the victim's left behind by the burglars.

Detectives later searched the room of a Motel 6 in Sacramento where the pair were staying and found property stolen from a Sacramento County Sheriff's deputy early Monday morning in Elk Grove. Lal was on probation in Sacramento County and subjected to searches.

Police arrested Singh and Lal on suspicion of burglary, possession of burglary tools and conspiracy to commit a crime.

Singh was also arrested for being a suspect in two Feb. 23 Rocklin burglaries.

The men were booked into Placer County jail. Singh is being held on $50,000 bail and Lal on $40,000 bail.


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Man killed in Natomas home invasion was teacher, coach

By Phillip Reese and Cathy Locke
preese@sacbee.com

Salvador Heredia-Arriaga wanted to give something back to his community, so after graduating from UC Santa Cruz, he moved home to Natomas, took a job as a substitute teacher and helped coach the high school football team.

"You have the privilege of going to college," his mother, Susan Heredia, vice president of the Natomas Unified School Board, recalled telling him. "Use that privilege to make a difference."

Late Friday night, two armed men entered an apartment on the 2600 block of River Plaza Drive in south Natomas and shot and killed Heredia-Arriaga, according to police. Heredia-Arriaga (left in photo supplied by his family) was 26.

Based on a preliminary investigation, detectives believe Heredia-Arriaga was just visiting friends when he arrived in the middle of a home-invasion robbery at the River Pointe apartment complex, interrupting the intruders.

After shooting Heredia-Arriaga, the robbers and ran away. As of this evening, they are still at large.

The suspects are described as black, in their late teens to early 20s, wearing dark hooded sweatshirts and blue jeans.

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Placer sheriff: Deputies interrupt burglary in progress

By Bee Staff

Placer County Sheriff's deputies stopped a residential burglary in-progress as one of the burglars walked out of a Colfax home carrying stolen goods, according to Sheriff's Department release.

The release outlined this chain of events:

At 10:50 a.m. Monday, a witness called 911 to report that two men had just kicked in the front door of a home on West Oak Street.

When deputies arrived minutes later, they said Sean Michael Emmons (photo bottom left), 19, who has no fixed address, walked out of the home's front door carrying jewelry and other items.

At the same time, workers from a business behind the home had called 911 to report that two men were loading items into a blue Chevy Trailblazer.

The workers wrote down the vehicle's license plate number, which deputies broadcasted to all patrol officers.

Shortly after that broadcast, a deputy saw the Trailblazer speeding along westbound Interstate 80 near Dry Creek Road.

The driver, Paul Lopez Zazueta (photo bottom right), 18, of Sacramento, was in possession of a television, a snowboard, clothing and a bicycle later found to belong to the residents of the West Oak Street home, the release states.

Both suspects are being held at the Placer County Jail in Auburn on burglary and conspiracy charges, the release states. Bail is set at $50,000 each.

Friday, March 5, 2010

Roseville PD arrests 4 burglary suspects on neighbors' tip

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Roseville Police officers have arrested four suspected burglars in a west Roseville neighborhood, thanks to neighbors reporting suspicious activity, a police spokeswoman said today.

At 10:41 a.m. Monday, residents reported a silver Dodge Neon with four occupants slowly cruising back and forth along Steinbeck Drive, occasionally stopping while three males got out of the vehicle, walked up to houses and looked around, said Dee Dee Gunther of the Roseville Police Department.

Officers found the Dodge Neon parked in the neighborhood, with a 17-year-old female driver waiting inside, Gunther said. Other officers located the three males on foot nearby, carrying suspected burglar's tools, she said.

The Dodge Neon and three of the suspects, Bryan Scorza (photo bottom left) and the two juveniles, matched descriptions of suspects in a Feb. 19 residential burglary in the same neighborhood, Gunther said.

Scorza, 20, of Sacramento was arrested on suspicion of committing the Feb. 19 residential burglary, as well as conspiracy, prowling, possession of burglar's tools, and contributing to the delinquency of minors, she said.

Sean Michael Szostak (photo bottom right), 18, of Sacramento was arrested on suspicion of attempted burglary, conspiracy, possession of a switchblade knife and being a felon in possession of a weapon, possession of burglar's tools, and contributing to the delinquency of minors, Gunther said.

Both adults have since been released from the Placer County Jail on promises to appear in court, she said.

A 17-year-old female and a 16-year-old male, both from Sacramento, were arrested on burglary-related charges and taken to Placer County Juvenile Hall.

Friday, January 22, 2010

Cirby Way and Riverside Avenue a “gold mine” for Roseville drivers

By Megan Wood The Press Tribune

In 2009 officers issued 844 citations for merging out of freeway only lanes

If you haven’t yet mastered navigating through the newly installed “freeway only” lanes at Cirby Way and Riverside Avenue in Roseville, now’s the time.

Roseville Police officers have already ticketed several drivers, citing them for violations including unsafe lane changes and failure to obey regulation signs.

Dustin Doyle, a Roseville resident, was recently pulled over and cited for disobeying regulation traffic signs after changing lanes out of the freeway only lane headed for I-80 West.

“I checked over my shoulder, there was no traffic coming and I safely changed lanes,” Doyle said. “It’s ridiculous that I was ticketed, there’s nothing saying that I can’t change lanes there.”

Doyle was fined $250 and is currently contesting the citation.

In court, Doyle said he was one of a handful of other drivers that had been cited for the same moving violation, on the same day, by the same officer.

Terrence Scheffler of Antelope wrote a letter to The Press Tribune, calling the Cirby Way and Riverside Avenue intersection a “gold mine” after receiving a $221 citation, his first in 55 years for “negligence and failure to obey traffic signs.”

In 2009, Roseville Police officers issued 844 citations at the Cirby Way and Riverside Avenue intersection, of those 363 were violations of state vehicle code 21461(a), requiring obedience to official traffic control devices and 299 citations were issued for violating Roseville Municipal Code 11.06.03 for the same violation.

The difference in citation fines is about $120, and officers have the discretion to choose which violation to cite drivers.

“I, myself, the majority of the time cite for the Roseville Municipal Code. It gives drivers a break and it isn’t a point on their record,” said Roseville Traffic Sergeant Marc Glynn.

Glynn said there are many reminders to drivers of the lane’s direction, including several signs that indicate the lane’s direction to westbound I-80.

Glynn said that Roseville Police Department waited until July of 2009, two months after the Riverside Avenue improvement project was completed, to begin ticketing drivers for failing to obey the regulation signs that are posted freeway only.

Coming from his home off Melody Lane, Doyle said a right turn onto Cirby Way is his only option, putting him in the rightmost turn lane that is marked freeway only on the pavement.

“I have no choice but to get in that lane, even if I don’t want to go to the freeway,” Doyle said, citing the California Driver handbook, which states that a proper right turn begins and ends in the lane nearest the right hand curb. “I would have to change lanes out of the freeway only lane to continue down Riverside or if I want to go I-80 East.”

Glynn said that because the Cirby Way and Melody Lane intersection is a controlled intersection, Doyle can safely turn into any of the lanes including the center lanes that continue down Cirby Way, or the No.1 right turn lane that directs drivers to the stoplight at Cirby Way and Riverside Avenue.

“The No.1 lane becomes dashed (on Riverside Avenue) indicating that drivers can change lanes to continue down Riverside or continue merging to I-80 East,” Glynn said.

According to Glynn, changing lanes out of the No.2 freeway only lane into the No.1 lane before the stoplight at Riverside Avenue would not have resulted in a citation.

“The problem is on Riverside Avenue where the traffic is heavier and you have cars jockeying for a position,” Glynn said. “I tell drivers if you want to avoid the ticket, go to the light (at Riverside Avenue) and turn right,” Glynn said, as opposed to the No.2 freeway only lane, which does not stop.

Glynn said more improvements to the Cirby Way and Melody Lane intersection are planned, including making the solid white line between the No.1 and No.2 right turn lanes a dashed line and installing an I-80 West, freeway only sign on Melody Lane.

“The city is doing the best they can to improve the intersection for motorists,” Glynn said.

Investigation continues into Cirby Way shooting

Eric Laughlin, The Press Tribune

Roseville police detectives are still searching for a man who shot an employee of a weight loss clinic at Cirby Way and Sunrise Avenue Wednesday evening.

The employee of Absolute Weight Loss Clinic, said to be in his 50s, was reportedly locking up the business at around 7:45 p.m., when an Hispanic man approached him from the parking lot.

An argument ensued and the suspect reportedly shot the employee twice, causing him to collapse in front of a VCR repair store. He was taken to a Sutter Roseville Medical Center with injuries to his abdomen, but the wounds were not thought to be life threatening.

Witnesses were unable to estimate the Hispanic suspect's age, but he was described as being approximately 5-foot, 8-inches tall, 150 pounds, and wearing a red or dark orange hooded sweatshirt and jeans.

Investigators have yet to determine a motive or whether or not the two men knew each other.

Anyone with information regarding the suspect is asked to call Roseville Crimestoppers at 783-STOP. A cash reward could apply for callers providing information leading to an arrest.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Update: Roseville PD describes shooting suspect

By Kim Minugh and Chelsea Phua of sacbee.com

kiminugh@sacbee.com

Roseville police have released a more detailed description of a man suspected of shooting another man in strip mall parking lot Wednesday night.

The shooter was described to police as a Hispanic man of an unknown age, about 5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds, according to Roseville police. He was wearing a dark-colored, possibly red or dark-orange hooded sweatshirt and jeans.

Authorities said the victim, a man in his 50s, was taken to Sutter Roseville Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Sgt. Jason Bosworth told The Bee on Wednesday night that the man may have been an employee at a weight-loss clinic at a shopping center at Sunrise Avenue and Cirby Way. He was leaving the clinic shortly before 7:45 p.m. when another man confronted him.

Bosworth said the men briefly exchanged words before the shooter fired twice at the victim, hitting him in the mid-torso. Witnesses told police the gunman ran toward Sunrise Avenue.

The victim went into a nearby TV repair store to ask for help.

Roseville police, with assistance from Sacramento and Citrus Heights police officers, cordoned off the area for about 40 minutes to look for the suspect but did not find him.

Detectives do not yet know whether the suspect and victim knew each other, nor have they determined a motive.