Aug. 10-16: Teens Detained for Drinking, Stealing at Fair Oaks Grade School

Hard lemonade, soft crimes

A 16-year-old Citrus Heights teen was arrested last week for trying to steal a computer from a Fair Oaks elementary school after hours.

The bad decisions started around 1 a.m. last Tuesday, when almost half a dozen teenagers visited the Northridge Elementary School on Cocoa Palm Way with a pack of Mike’s Hard Lemonade to drink and hang out, according to a report from the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Department.

One of the teens, described in the report as a 6-foot-tall 16-year-old male, noticed that several classroom doors at the school were inexplicably open. The teen then allegedly entered one of the rooms and tried to abscond with a computer.

But sheriff’s deputies had already arrived at the campus because of a silent burglary alarm that had been tripped, said spokesman Deputy Jason Ramos.

One of the other teens informed his friend the cops had arrived, and the suspect set the computer monitor down and tried to run, the report stated. But the suspect didn’t get past the school boundaries, as deputies had already set up a perimeter around the campus.

In response to a question, Ramos said officers saw the suspect run, but did not see him in possession of the computer. It wasn’t known why the classroom doors were open at that time of the night.

“Two of the others were detained, and admitted that they should not have been at the campus, but went there to ‘drink and hang out,’” Ramos said.

The accused computer thief was issued a citation and released to his father, he added.

King David’s return

Last week a Fair Oaks man was sent more than 50 miles to answer for crimes allegedly committed in someone else’s backyard, Sutter County jail records show.

King David Alboro Chico, 28, of Fair Oaks was quite a long way from home in October 2009, when he was arrested in Yuba City on suspicion of burglary.

According to Brenda Baker, communications manager for the Sutter County Sheriff’s Department, authorities were alerted to an attempted break-in at a residence in the 1800 block of Baron Court after a neighbor called 911.

The responding deputy determined that Chico had entered the home’s backyard and attempted to steal items belonging to the resident, said Baker. Chico was arrested and booked into county jail.

Nearly two years later, Chico was sent back to the jail on a $30,000 detainer from Sacramento County for receiving known stolen property, but has since been released, according to jail records.

On Aug. 10, jail records showed Chico as an inmate with charges of grand theft and false personation, as well as receiving known stolen property. There was an order to appear next month and the grand theft and false personation charges.