On
July 6th, we posted images found on a camera seized from a suspect during
an arrest. Once again, the great detective
work from our Santa Cruz PD Facebook followers comes through and we are able to
make contact with the camera’s rightful owner.
Here’s the rest of the story:
On
July 6th at about 10:30 AM Officers Elliott Rock and Dave Albert
were on foot patrol on Pacific Ave. They
came across our suspect getting ready to light up his marijuana pipe in the
courtyard of Taco Bell at 802 Pacific Ave.
Officers Rock and Albert contacted our suspect and began his
investigation.
Our
suspect is Mr. Francisco Valdez aka: Francisco Moran.
Mr. Valdez (Moran) is on probation and has an
extensive history of arrests in Santa Cruz and Watsonville for weapons, drugs,
burglary and theft related charges many times over.
A search of Mr. Valdez’ (Moran’s) person and
a bag in his possession found methamphetamine, marijuana, bolt cutters, and a
CO2 powered and realistic looking revolver.
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| Items in the suspect's possession |
Also
in his possession was a camera with images stored on it.
Since
he was in violation of his probation, Mr. Valdez (Moran) was taken into custody
and booked into jail. If his probation was not violated, he would
have simply been given a citation for the narcotic violations and possession of
burglary tools and sent on his way.
Meanwhile,
Officers Rock and Albert forwarded the camera images to be posted on the
department Facebook page. Within 3 hours,
our intrepid team of Facebook detectives had forwarded the message to the right
person, and the rightful owner was alerted.
We will now add another charge to Mr. Valdez (Moran) for being in
possession of stolen property.
Great
teamwork and great police work results in stolen property returned and a
chronic offender back in jail.
