Davis police arrested three people in connection with two unrelated burglaries reported earlier this week.
The first arrest occurred late Tuesday morning after officers responded to a commercial building at 260 Cousteau Place in Mace Ranch, where a man was discovered sleeping in a utility room, Lt. Art Camacho said. Dustin McGuire, 32, reportedly had several lock-box and electronic keys allowing access to the suites on the property, as well as clothing items previously delivered to the building.
McGuire, a transient, was booked into the Yolo County Jail on burglary charges.
“Officers continue to investigate the relationship between this incident and other crimes that have occurred recently in the business complex,” Camacho said. “According to employees at the scene, an unknown suspect had previously stolen several lock boxes and building keys from the complex,” and someone had tried prying open an nearby suite door early Monday morning.
In the second unrelated incident, officers were dispatched at about 5:15 a.m. Wednesday to a report of a vehicle burglary on Drummond Avenue. Witnesses at the scene said a male subject broke out the window of an unoccupied vehicle, reached inside and stole a chain saw from inside, then fled the scene in a gray sedan, Camacho said.
While responding to the incident, officers spotted the sedan on Lillard Drive and made contact with two occupants, later identified as 25 year old Alainna Parker, 25; and 26-year-old Vertrail Payne of Sacramento.
“Officers searched the vehicle and located several construction-type power tools, including the stolen chain saw,” Camacho said. “Detectives are currently ascertaining if the located tools were stolen during other burglaries that occurred in and around the city of Davis.”
Both Parker and Payne were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy and possession of stolen property, while Payne faces an additional vehicle burglary charge.