Months-Long Investigation Leads to 2 Arrests in Peninsula Burglary Case

Belmont police have arrested two people in connection to a residential burglary, police said Friday.

23-year-old Carlos Avalos-Velazquez of Redwood City and 23-year-old Amanda Salazar of San Francisco were arrested Thursday after four months of investigation into an October 2014 burglary, according to Belmont Police Capt. Patrick Halleran.

Details as to how authorities were able to link the two to the crime weren’t released, but police did say that they served warrants on Thursday.

“Both suspects were booked into the San Mateo County Jail in Redwood City on charges of burglary, unauthorized use of a credit card, identity theft and possession of stolen property,” Halleran said. “Belmont PD Detectives have also recovered some of the property taken in the burglary.”

Halleran said that the Belmont Police Department is now working with the police departments in Menlo Park and San Francisco on possible connections between Avalos-Velazquez and Salazar to burglaries in those cities.

The burglary that the two were arrested in connection to in Belmont happened in the 2600 block of Prindle Road, on Oct. 30, according to Halleran.