Teen burglary ring linked to nearly 80 Bay Area break-ins dismantled after months-long investigation: PD

A pack of teenage burglars accused of targeting astir 80 Bay Area homes and vehicles is down bars aft investigators unraveled a months-long transgression spree that included stolen firearms, high-speed chases and an alleged fencing cognition that netted astir $250,000 successful suspected stolen property.

Concord constabulary besides released surveillance video of the burglary spree, dubbing the compilation "Teamwork Leads to Arrests successful Regional Armed Burglary Series."

The video shows the suspects breaking into parked vehicles successful the aboriginal greeting hours earlier utilizing stolen store doorway openers to summation entree to attached garages, wherever investigators said they stole powerfulness tools, firearms and different valuables.

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Surveillance video released by Concord constabulary shows an equipped burglary fishy pointing a firearm toward a home's interior doorway during the investigation. (Concord Police Department)

In 1 of the astir brazen moments captured connected camera, investigators said the suspects pointed a firearm astatine the interior doorway connecting a store to a home, seemingly waiting for a homeowner to emerge. During different burglary, the unit allegedly stole 14 firearms from a azygous residential garage.

By the clip the probe wrapped up, detectives had linked the suspects to 37 conveyance and residential burglaries successful Concord and astir 40 much crossed Contra Costa and Solano counties. Police said the radical besides stole aggregate vehicles, which they allegedly utilized to perpetrate further crimes.

The suspects repeatedly slipped distant from officers arsenic the burglary spree unfolded.

In May, an serviceman spotted a imaginable fishy conveyance and attempted a postulation stop, but the operator allegedly sped away. Police launched a pursuit earlier calling it disconnected implicit nationalist information concerns.

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Two burglary suspects interruption into a parked pickup motortruck earlier allegedly utilizing a stolen store doorway opener to entree adjacent homes successful California. (Concord Police Department)

During different drawstring of burglaries successful June, officers located a antithetic fishy vehicle, but the suspects again escaped.

Later that month, the juveniles allegedly fled different burglary, crashed a conveyance and ran from the country connected foot. They evaded seizure erstwhile again, though officers recovered a firearm.

The interruption successful the lawsuit came successful precocious June, erstwhile Concord detectives moving with the Richmond Police Department identified 4 juveniles believed to beryllium down the burglary spree.

One fishy was already being held successful juvenile hallway successful transportation with an unrelated case. Investigators past obtained apprehension and hunt warrants for the remaining three.

Police said the suspects targeted parked vehicles earlier utilizing stolen store doorway openers to participate residential garages. (Concord Police Department)

In July, the Concord Police Department SWAT Team executed simultaneous warrants with assistance from the Antioch Police Department, Pittsburg Police Department, Central County SWAT and the U.S. Marshals Service.

All 3 outstanding suspects were arrested.

Searches of their residences led to the betterment of 2 firearms stolen during the burglaries, constabulary said. A 3rd stolen firearm had antecedently been recovered by the Richmond Police Department during a abstracted investigation.

As detectives dug deeper, they uncovered what prosecutors picture arsenic an organized fencing operation.

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Surveillance video released by Concord constabulary shows a masked burglary fishy during a drawstring of location and conveyance break-ins crossed the Bay Area. (Concord Police Department)

Investigators identified 37-year-old Wuillian Cordova-Cubias of Oakland arsenic the alleged purchaser of stolen property, accusing him of purchasing powerfulness tools from the juvenile suspects, often soon aft the burglaries occurred.

On Aug. 5, detectives with the Concord Police Department, Oakland Police Department and the U.S. Marshals Service executed a hunt warrant astatine Cordova-Cubias' Oakland home.

Police said the hunt uncovered what investigators judge was the hub of a determination fencing operation. Inside, detectives recovered astatine slightest 500 suspected stolen powerfulness tools, on with a stolen ATV, a stolen forklift, an unregistered firearm and galore different high-value items. Authorities estimated the recovered spot was worthy astir $250,000.

The Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office charged Cordova-Cubias with receiving stolen property, 2 counts of receiving stolen centrifugal vehicles, unlawful firearm enactment and conspiracy with juvenile co-conspirators. Prosecutors besides filed sentencing enhancements that could summation immoderate imaginable penalties if helium is convicted.

Exterior of the Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office successful Martinez, California, wherever charges were filed successful the burglary investigation. (Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office)

"As organized theft offenses person increased, my bureau has responded by gathering an effectual Organized Theft Unit that works intimately with instrumentality enforcement to record beardown cases we judge we tin beryllium beyond a tenable uncertainty successful court," Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton said successful a statement. "Concord Police Department's thorough probe into these burglaries and the fencing cognition reflects the benignant of collaboration that holds individuals accountable."

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Cordova-Cubias remains successful custody astatine the Martinez Detention Facility and is scheduled to beryllium arraigned Monday day successful Contra Costa County Superior Court.

The Contra Costa County District Attorney's Office besides filed complaints against the 3 juvenile suspects. Their identities person not been released nether California law.