At approximately 1:15 AM on May 22 another house with a "For Sale" sign posted was broken into. The criminal kicked in the back door just like the B&E on Lasuen a few days ago. An alert neighbor contacted the sheriff's department, which responded and arrested the intruder.
A resident heard the suspect tell a deputy that they "might as well let him go as what
he did was a misdemeanor, and the jail will let him go anyway."
The subject is an early release felon parolee who was released due to overcrowding, and budget issues.
The subject also stated that he was a ward of the county. (The
state of California is pushing the burden of incarceration of inmates to the county level, which the counties don't have the economic resources to handle, either.)
Chuck is going to lobby to the Sheriff's department to post photos and
names of those caught in similar circumstances so that the criminals who prey on our neighborhood(s), will be recognized and
venture elsewhere.
Note: The suspect may be correct that he'll be promptly released, but we'd rather have him sheltering in jail than in a home he's broken into in our neighborhood. Also, when the suspect is a felon parolee, the results of even a misdemeanor arrest may be more serious than for the average criminal. No matter what the outcome, the suspect is out of our neighborhood for a while at least and might decide to find vacant houses in another if we don't tolerate the B&E's the way he'd like.
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