Marin Transient Caught Breaking Into Petaluma Businesses: Police

PETALUMA, CA — A transient from Marin County was arrested early Monday in Petaluma on suspicion of burglarizing a local business and trying to break into another one with a crowbar, Petaluma police said. Officers who responded to a 5:27 a.m. alarm at a business in the 100 block of Western Avenue found that someone had tried to force the door open with a crowbar, police said.

Officers checked the surrounding area and located a transient later identified as 38-year-old Jared Cole.

Police recalled contacting Cole earlier that night in the area of another commercial burglary in the 300 block of G Street where a door to a business was forced open. Officers did not identify Cole as a suspect in that incident at that time, but in an interview police allege he admitted to the G Street burglary as well as the attempted burglary on Western Avenue.

Cole was booked into Sonoma County Jail on suspicion of committing the two felonies, police said.

Jail records showed he was being held in lieu of $40,000 bail Tuesday pending a court appearance Wednesday afternoon.

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