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Chico police arrested a man near the Chico State campus for breaking into woman’s car and stealing personal property.
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A man police are calling the car break-in bandit was arrested Oct. 25 by the department’s TARGET team.
Officers arrested Aaron
Richmond, 18, around 8:30 a.m. and charged him with burglary, possession of
drug paraphernalia, possession of burglary tools and possession of stolen
property.
According to a press
release from Chico police:
The evening before
Richmond’s arrest, a woman reported that her vehicle was broken into and her
personal belongings were stolen in the 500 block of Vallombrosa Avenue in Chico.
The items included credit cards, a U.S. passport, loose change and a grocery
store membership card inside backpack.
Officers approached
Richmond at the Bidwell Bowl Amphitheater near the Children’s Playground in
downtown Chico for illegal camping. Richmond was sleeping in the walkway, and
officers saw that he was in possession of a backpack that appeared to contain
stolen property.
The property matched the
items stolen the night before. He was also in possession of a window-punch
device and had pieces of broken glass in his pockets.
Officers arrested
Richmond and transported him to Butte County Jail.
The owner of the stolen
property was contacted. Her name was not released by Chico police.
- By Ruby Larson