Two juveniles were arrested and booked into Juvenile Hall March 12 inconnection with 24 auto burglaries in the Sacramento State ResidenceHall parking lot between Jan. 28 and March 12.
The males, 16 and 17 years old, were charged with two counts ofreceiving stolen property. One subject was also charged with possessionof a controlled substance, according to John Hamrick, public informationofficer for Campus Police. Police officials withheld the names of thesuspects because of their ages.
"An officer was on patrol in the dorm parking lot when he saw ablue-green vehicle driving the wrong way through the parking lot,"according to the police report.The officer then detained the driver and passenger of the vehicle whilewaiting for additional officers from the Sacramento City PoliceDepartment to arrive.
"The passenger window was broken, and I saw a hula doll lying on theback seat, matching one described in a previous police report," thearresting officer stated in the police report.
The owner of the doll, a dorm resident, was contacted and identified thedoll as a missing item from a previous auto burglary.
Officers searched the subjects and found half an ounce of a "whitepowdery" substance in the possession of one of the juveniles.
"[The substance] tested positive for methamphetamine," Hamrick said.
Additional items found during a search of the vehicle included burglarytools, flashlights, a red Eddie Bauer gym bag containing a VHS tape, aCD case, a Kodak camera and auto stereo speakers.
According to Hamrick, Campus Police is currently contacting the ownersof the items in an attempt to return the property once it has beendocumented.
The items were taken during three different episodes of auto burglaryover the past six weeks, as documented in a daily log kept by CampusPolice. The first incident occurred in late January, when six vehicleswere vandalized. On Thursday, March 1, 10 more vehicles were brokeninto. The latest episode happened over the weekend of March 10 and 11,when an additional eight vehicles were burglarized.
Officers found evidence linking the two juveniles to all 24 burglaries,Hamrick said.The vehicle the suspects were driving at the time of the arrest wastowed, but officials later determined that the car was borrowed from anunknown source, according to Hamrick.
The suspects, both of Sacramento, did not have previous records, and thecase is currently under investigation.
