05:41 PM PDT on Monday, March 14, 2011 By STEVEN BARRIE
The Press-Enterprise Redlands police are looking for a suspect in a vehicle theft and vehicle burglaries after he bailed out of a moving pickup that slammed into an arriving police car.
Police had no description of the man who was spotted early this morning in a Chevrolet S-10 pickup on Crestview Road, police said in a news release. Before the officer who spotted him could get his car turned around, the man jumped from the moving truck and fled on foot.
The truck continued down Crestview, taking out several mailboxes before it hit another police cruiser arriving on scene at Ford Street, police said. The officer in that car was treated for minor injuries at Redlands Community Hospital and released.
Police got a call about 3:45 a.m. about a man breaking into vehicles in the 600 block of Bradbury Drive. The S-10 turned out to be stolen out of Grand Terrace, police said. Officers found stolen items in the truck from two vehicle burglaries on Bradbury.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Redlands police Detective Frank Rocha at 909-798-7580 or police dispatch at 909-798-7681.
Reach Steven Barrie at (951) 368-9466 or at sbarrie@PE.com
Runaway vehicle crashes into Redlands police car
By Melissa Pinion-Whitt
Created: 03/14/2011 08:12:29 AM PDT
A stolen car left behind by a suspected car burglar rolled down a Redlands street this morning, crashing into several mailboxes and a police officer's squad car.
The officer was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries, said Redlands police Sgt. Vonn Layel.
The incident began about 4:30 a.m. when a resident saw a man breaking into a neighbor's car in the 600 block of Bradbury Drive.
The burglar then broke into a car belonging to the person who called the police,
Layel said.
Police arrived at the scene as the suspected burglar was sitting in his getaway car. The vehicle had been stolen from Grand Terrace.
The man abandoned the car, letting it roll down Crestview Road. The vehicle struck an officer who was headed to the scene.
Officers discovered the burglar broke into at least two other vehicles in the1400 block of Hampton Road. They found stolen property in the crashed vehicle.
Read more: http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_17608995#ixzz1GanS6p3m
Gramps Adds:
GT has been plagued by DUI, Grand Theft Auto and Auto Burglaries. Perhaps this suspect and his cohorts will be caught. Anyone buying used parts, should know where they come from. The reason car thefts do what they do is in part because there are people eager to buy parts at a discount.
When you buy anything stolen you are guilty of possession of stolen property and at a minimum will lose the property and the money you spent buying it. It is better to do business with reputable businesses.
Just like our appetite for drugs drives the drug trade, our willingness to buy stolen property drives the auto theft and parts theft activities. So folks when some one has something for a "Special Price" walk away. There is no reason to think they are doing you a special favor.
Police had no description of the man who was spotted early this morning in a Chevrolet S-10 pickup on Crestview Road, police said in a news release. Before the officer who spotted him could get his car turned around, the man jumped from the moving truck and fled on foot.
The truck continued down Crestview, taking out several mailboxes before it hit another police cruiser arriving on scene at Ford Street, police said. The officer in that car was treated for minor injuries at Redlands Community Hospital and released.
Police got a call about 3:45 a.m. about a man breaking into vehicles in the 600 block of Bradbury Drive. The S-10 turned out to be stolen out of Grand Terrace, police said. Officers found stolen items in the truck from two vehicle burglaries on Bradbury.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call Redlands police Detective Frank Rocha at 909-798-7580 or police dispatch at 909-798-7681.
Reach Steven Barrie at (951) 368-9466 or at sbarrie@PE.com
Runaway vehicle crashes into Redlands police car
By Melissa Pinion-Whitt
Created: 03/14/2011 08:12:29 AM PDT
A stolen car left behind by a suspected car burglar rolled down a Redlands street this morning, crashing into several mailboxes and a police officer's squad car.
The officer was taken to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries, said Redlands police Sgt. Vonn Layel.
The incident began about 4:30 a.m. when a resident saw a man breaking into a neighbor's car in the 600 block of Bradbury Drive.
The burglar then broke into a car belonging to the person who called the police,
Layel said.
Police arrived at the scene as the suspected burglar was sitting in his getaway car. The vehicle had been stolen from Grand Terrace.
The man abandoned the car, letting it roll down Crestview Road. The vehicle struck an officer who was headed to the scene.
Officers discovered the burglar broke into at least two other vehicles in the1400 block of Hampton Road. They found stolen property in the crashed vehicle.
Read more: http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_17608995#ixzz1GanS6p3m
Gramps Adds:
GT has been plagued by DUI, Grand Theft Auto and Auto Burglaries. Perhaps this suspect and his cohorts will be caught. Anyone buying used parts, should know where they come from. The reason car thefts do what they do is in part because there are people eager to buy parts at a discount.
When you buy anything stolen you are guilty of possession of stolen property and at a minimum will lose the property and the money you spent buying it. It is better to do business with reputable businesses.
Just like our appetite for drugs drives the drug trade, our willingness to buy stolen property drives the auto theft and parts theft activities. So folks when some one has something for a "Special Price" walk away. There is no reason to think they are doing you a special favor.
