Crime & Safety

Two Arrested In Connection With School Burglaries In Santa Clara Co.

Los Gatos-Monte Sereno police said items retrieved from the suspects' car included computers from a Morgan Hill and regional schools.

Two people have been arrested in connection with burglaries at several schools in Santa Clara County.

Nicole Stafford, 28, and Andrew Holloway, 28, were arrested June 10 on suspicion of four counts of burglary, possession of stolen property, giving false identifying information, possession of burglary tools, transportation of a controlled substance and on outstanding warrants, police said.

At 3:55 a.m. on June 10, an officer with the Los Gatos/Monte Sereno Police Department observed a suspicious vehicle leaving the area of Rolling Hills Middle School, police said.

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Officers again spotted the vehicle a short time later parked in a private residential subdivision at Casa Grande Way and Rio Vista in Los Gatos.

Officers contacted the occupants of the vehicle, identified as Stafford and Holloway, and located several suspected stolen items in the vehicle including laptop computers, electronics, identification cards and sports memorabilia, police said.

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Police later discovered several of the computers were stolen from Rolling Hills Middle School and Jackson Oaks Elementary School in Morgan Hill. Other items discovered in the vehicle were linked to school burglaries in Santa Clara County, police said.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to call the Los Gatos/Monte Sereno Police Department at (408) 354-8600.

--Bay City News

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