Murrieta Police Department Murrieta Police Department
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PRESS RELEASE 1701M-5789
Subject : Call from Citizen Leads to Arrest for Mail Theft
Contact : Tony Conrad 951-461-6309, tconrad@murrieta.org
On 1/26/17 at approximately 4:24 a.m., the Murrieta Police Department received a phone call from an observant citizen regarding subjects seen going through mailboxes in the area of Silkwood Court and Spinning Wheel Drive. The caller was able to provide a description of the vehicle that dropped the subjects off, as well as a direction of travel of the subjects who were on foot. The first of several officers arrived in the area within four minutes of the phone call and observed four individuals walking on Spinning Wheel Drive, as the caller had described. The four subjects were detained by the officer while the incoming units continued to check the area for the vehicle described by the caller, as well as any possible outstanding subjects. Continue reading
