FREMONT — A K-9 officer’s pursuit led officers tipped off by an alert neighbor to arrest a trio of South Bay teen home-burglary suspects late last week, authorities said Sunday.
Around 2:30 p.m. Friday, officers responded to a neighbor’s call about a suspicious vehicle outside with two getting out and entering a backyard of a home in the 4900 block of Norris Road, police said in a statement Sunday evening.
When officers arrived, they learned the witness had seen the suspects inside the home. While other officers arrived and held the vehicle’s driver, the other suspects fled the home’s rear yard.
A K-9 officer responded with Blaze, a bloodhound trained to trail suspects, who led officers to a gas station to a gas station just over a quarter-mile away near Central Avenue and Blacow Road, police said.
Two suspects, identified only as 17-year-old Sunnyvale residents, who matched a witness-given description were taken into custody, given residential-burglary citations ordering them to appear in court at a later date, and released to their parents’ custody.
The vehicle driver, identified as Nestor Garcia-Erazo, 19, of Sunnyvale, was arrested on suspicion of residential burglary, and booked into Fremont city jail. He was held on $50,000 bail and faces arraignment Tuesday at East County Hall of Justice, according to a county records check Sunday night.
Police offered their thanks to community members, and said burglary detectives were working with other area departments to learn about possible links to other regional home burglaries.
Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.
