SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif.- Two people are arrested in connection with a string of residential home burglaries.
"What was really sad is I've collected this stuff before my grandmother and it's all gone," said Lorien Pritchard, a victim.
Lorien Pritchard posted a sign after her house was burglarized last Friday, a thousand dollar reward for anyone who can identify the persons who broke into her home.
"I was panicked and violated and a lot of fear and a lot of anticipation," said Pritchard.
On February 20th at approximately 2:30 AM, on the 1200 block of Chorro Street, police pulled over 35-year-old Aaron Firby and 19-year-old Hattie Davis and determined they were the burglary suspects.
"They would tend to go neighborhoods and knock on doors, if someone answered the door they would ask if someone was home by a different name that they knew didn't live there and would leave. If no one answered that would be a target house," explained Lieutenant John Bledsoe, San Luis Obispo Police.
Police say 6 neighborhoods all within a few miles of each other were broken into since December.
"We recovered a great deal of electronics equipment, jewelry, cash, change in jars, anything in value they would take," said Bledsoe.
Items like Pritchard fears she may never get back.
"..Watches, passports,identification, credit cards," said Pritchard as she named off some of the items stolen.
"Usually the entries were through either unlocked windows or doors, or they would force there way in," said Bledsoe.
Police say when they pulled over the suspects, they also found $3,000 in cash, a stolen gun, 2½ ounces of methamphetamine, a half ounce of heroin.
Kirby was booked into County Jail for Burglary, Possession of Stolen Property, Possession for sales of methamphetamine and heroin, and a probation violation. Davis was booked into County Jail for outstanding warrants and resisting arrest.
This investigation is on-going in an attempt to identify further victims or additional suspects who may be involved in these crimes.
The six burglaries reported between December 2012, and February 19th, 2013, which were similar in nature occurred in the following areas of the City of San Luis Obispo:
4300 block of Lark Spur, 1100 block of Laurel Lane, 300 block of Clover, 3100 block of Cornus, 4000 block of Sunflower, 2300 block of Flora
