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Uploaded: Sunday, November 4, 2012, 7:00 PM
Three men arrested after interrupted burglary in Palo Alto
Trio is connected to at least three Palo Alto burglaries, police say
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by Sue Dremann
Palo Alto Weekly Staff
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| Three men have been arrested by the Palo Alto Police Department after a recent interrupted residential burglary, and the men are allegedly connected to at least two other recent home break-ins, police announced Sunday, Nov. 4.
Officers responded to the 800 block of Miranda Green Street near Foothill Expressway on a report of a residential burglary Tuesday, Oct. 30, at about 11:20 a.m. They arrived on scene just over three minutes after the incident was reported.
The victim, a woman in her 50s, reported that she had been inside her home when she heard her dog barking. She went outside to see what was bothering her pet, and she saw a strange vehicle backed into her driveway. The vehicle was a gold BMW X-5 sports utility vehicle. As she went to investigate why the car was there, it drove away, police said.
The victim noticed that her unlocked side-yard gate was open. She walked to the side of her home and saw a man standing near an open sliding door to a guest bedroom. There is no access from the guest bedroom to the main house, police said.
The man was holding a tool similar to a crowbar in his hands. When the victim asked who he was, he ran away and exited her yard on the opposite side of the house through another gate. She heard a car door slam, and then saw the same gold BMW X-5 driving north on Miranda Avenue. She noted that the car had a blue paper license plate that may have contained the word "water."
The victim returned to her residence and called police, providing a vehicle and suspect description. The suspects had not stolen any property from the home.
Two officers from the police department's Special Enforcement Detail spotted the suspect vehicle at about 11:50 a.m. in the 2100 block of East Bayshore Road just north of San Francisquito Creek. The gold BMW X-5 had a blue paper license plate that contained the word "Waterford." The officers stopped the vehicle and detained three men for investigation.
The suspects, Bulmaro Sanchez, Jose Angel Jimenez, and Carlos Bribiesca-Martinez, are all 18 years old and residents of East Palo Alto. After investigation police allege the men are responsible for the Miranda Green burglary and two others that occurred in Palo Alto on Oct. 25, police said.
In the first of those cases burglars entered a home in the 2000 block of Princeton Street near Stanford Avenue through an unlocked door between 11:10 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. They stole jewelry, electronic items and cash.
The second burglary occurred in the 700 block of Montrose Avenue near Middlefield Road and Sutherland Drive between 9:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. The suspects entered the home through an unlocked window and stole jewelry, electronic items and a safe. Witnesses reported seeing a BMW X-5 in the area at the time of the crimes, police said.
The investigation found that the men were in possession of property stolen from the Princeton Street burglary, and were in possession of burglary tools (a flathead screwdriver). Police were able to return the stolen property to the victim, they said.
Police booked Sanchez, Jimenez and Bribiesca-Martinez into the Santa Clara County Main Jail on three counts of residential burglary, a felony; conspiracy, a felony; and possession of stolen property and possession of burglary tools, both misdemeanors.
Detectives are continuing to investigate if the men are connected to any other recent residential burglaries in Palo Alto. The department said it continues to encourage residents to always close and lock doors and windows whenever leaving home and to lock side-yard gates.
Police said residents should consider becoming involved in the Block Preparedness Coordinator program administered by the city's Office of Emergency Services. More information is available at www.paneighborhoods.org/ep. The next free training class focuses on crime prevention and disaster preparedness and occurs on Nov. 15.
Anyone having information about the recent residential burglaries or these three arrested suspects can contact the police department at 650-329-2413. Anonymous tips can be e-mailed to paloalto@tipnow.org or sent by text message or voice mail to 650-383-8984.Are you receiving Express, our free daily e-mail edition? See a sample and sign-up for Express.
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Posted by Hulkamania, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood, on Nov 4, 2012 at 7:04 pm The stealin' business must be good if they're drivin' a Bimmer.
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Posted by Mr.Recycle, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood, on Nov 4, 2012 at 7:19 pm Nice work PAPD!
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Posted by PAresident, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood, on Nov 5, 2012 at 9:43 am
PAresident is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online Hulkster, don't you think that the "Bimmer" was hot property, too?
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Posted by bru, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood, on Nov 5, 2012 at 11:18 am
bru is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online gee, what nice looking gentlemen, they certainly could be bmw owners.
thanks palo alto police.
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Posted by rick, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Nov 5, 2012 at 12:00 pm
rick is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online I wonder whether the authorities will let them out to vote tomorrow.
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Posted by Jerry99, a resident of the Barron Park neighborhood, on Nov 5, 2012 at 3:32 pm
Jerry99 is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online They will claim racism and all charges will be dropped. Time to start getting citizen patrols out to the neighborhoods.
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Posted by Hulkamania, a resident of the Duveneck/St. Francis neighborhood, on Nov 5, 2012 at 6:48 pm
Hulkamania is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online Hulkster, don't you think that the "Bimmer" was hot property, too?
---PAresident
Nope. It was gold. They had it pimped out
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Posted by Nora Charles, a resident of Stanford, on Nov 5, 2012 at 8:43 pm
Nora Charles is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online Great job, PAPD! Also to the homeowner for keeping her cool and getting a great description, not to mention her barking dog alerting her to the thieves.
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Posted by rick, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood, on Nov 5, 2012 at 10:42 pm
rick is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online I need to learn when exactly possession of a flathead screwdriver becomes a misdemeanor.
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Posted by Jane_24, a resident of East Palo Alto, on Nov 6, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Jane_24 is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online Let me guess just because they were driving a "Bimmer" and they were Hispanic we assume it was hot property? So now if a Hispanic is driving a bimmer must be hot property interesting? But if another person of different ethnicity drives it no questions asked. But because they are Hispanic Palo Alto residents drop the racism bomb? I am not agreeing on what they did. Yes is was wrong, and at the end of the day they are going to get punished for what they did. But first go visit a Jail/Prison and take noticed that many of the people you see in Jail/Prison are white that committed similar crimes such as burglaries or drunk driving running over people and killing them or rapping their own children which is far worst. Plus having a gold SUV is suddenly "pimped" out?? Go to the BMW dealer and thats on of the color the costumer gets to choose from. Another racist low blow.
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Posted by bru, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood, on Nov 6, 2012 at 2:58 pm
bru is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online Jane_24 ... your interjection of political correctness is admirable, among those who care I suppose, but irrelevant.
Whoever was driving the BMW the fact that they were thugs and criminals was known beforehand so you can't call this prejudice really. Perhaps is the the irony of bad people driving nice cars that prompted people to make comments, and not any form of racism that you seem to be reflexively reacting to?
I am a long time reader of the Palo Alto Online, and a long time resident of Palo Alto. Do you think there is any place or way or even reason to discuss that Hispanics, and in particular Hispanics of lower socio-economic status seem to be very much over-represented in the crime/violent crime statistics in our city?
Go back through the crime reports here. Is it an issue? Or if it is not an issue should "we" be prevented from commenting on it. Believe me I know many very nice hard-working Hispanics, know and have hired for work, but I have also had experience I felt were racial or reverse-racial on occasion. It certainly is not fair that in discussing this we imply that hard-working Hispanics are responsible for those that are not or are somehow responsible to change them or turn them in, any more than any other group.
I just don't think your comment is any more helpful or defensive of Hispanic's than anyone else's, do you really? Then there is the whole "wholly" untouchable subject of how many if any are actually citizens ... can't even go there.
I expect that my comment just getting posted in some way is going to be "touched" by the censors here at PAO, whereas your comment probably won't, and I don't think that is fair either.
And to end, people have a way of saying things in ways deliberate or not that affect other people differently than perhaps they meant to. How much do we take that into account. I'd be interested to know the Editor's take on when, what, how and why they censor such commentary?
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Posted by Jane_24, a resident of East Palo Alto, on Nov 6, 2012 at 9:38 pm
Jane_24 is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online bru...Perhaps I didn't react to the comments appropriately and I agree that the other half was irrelevant. The reason I replied to the previous comments was because I am a Hispanic female myself and found this comments/sarcasm offensive. After viewing your comment I went back and shared it with others. I wanted to see if maybe I just took this too personal but even they felt the same way. But everyone is entitled to their own feelings and opinions. Besides from this article how or where do you get that they were thugs? Maybe I missed it. Take a minute and look at the other article of the two females who committed burglaries around the area and see how comments differ.
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Posted by bru, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood, on Nov 7, 2012 at 12:05 am
bru is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online Jane_24 ... I can understand that you might have been bothered about some comments. Everyone has the right to their feeling and to have those feelings respected to some degree, at least if done with goodwill and without malice. I could even see the editor deleting those posts based on your complaint because they offered nothing to discuss in in a discussion board context. An editor's job must be hard all those tough calls.
While there have been a lot of Hispanic offenders lately in the news, there is at least one story about an Hispanic woman who had her leaf blower stolen in front of her and was threatened by a knife ... right in my own neighborhood of Crescent Park. That outraged me.
I am curious though about why the others you shared ... my or your? comments with and what it was exactly that they felt or said they felt? Asking friend's opinions is always tough though because you never know if they are just saying something to get along.
My sensitivity to racism is that while many comments like this are "racial" they are not racist in the sense of 60+ years back or farther to slavery or Jim Crow. I find most comments of this nature rude and I tend to feel it is important to draw a distinction to make a point about how far our country has come. Being a Democrat, and white, when I learned the statistic tonight in the political election commentary that most white people did not vote for Obama and that he was elected by minorities to be astounding ... and that offended me to think there is still so much racism, but it is of a covert nature. So, perhaps your feelings are justified or at least understandable. I just saw it as an unfortunate turn of line of though trying to be funny ... to me not succeeding. It is perhaps impossible to know how to react to or deal with "racial" comments that contain the fear that ignoring them or allowing them expand can lead to a resurgence of "racism"
About the word "thug", I consider anyone who commits a crime like burglary a thug, so that's where I get it. The official dictionary definition implies violence in the word, so I might be slightly off, but people who commit burglaries are most often willing to commit violence if they have to in order to complete their crime or escape the consequences.
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Posted by bru, a resident of the Crescent Park neighborhood, on Nov 7, 2012 at 12:07 am
bru is a member (registered user) of Palo Alto Online Ooops, forgot to mention the Hispanic woman who had her leaf blower stolen was by a Hispanic male who drove off after threatening her with a knife. I hope they catch him too.
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