Glendora Police Seek Help in Finding Burglary Suspect

Glendora Police Saturday continued to seek help in finding a young burglary suspect who might possibly have been involved in a series of local residential burglaries.

The most recent sighting of the suspect was in an April 27 residential burglary attempt in which a man surprised a woman in the 400 block of East Linfield Street.

The woman returned home at about 1 p.m. to find a prowler in her home.

The resident felt something was wrong when she spotted a vehicle backed up to the side entrance of her home, a sergeant said.

When he saw her he displayed a knife and told her he was going to leave.

As he left her bedroom, he dropped a pillowcase full of items he had packed to take from her home, and ran out of the house, according to Glendora police Lt. Joe Ward.

Police are now looking for the burglar. He is described as La in his 20s, 5-foot-11 and about 150 pounds.

He has brown hair and is clean-shaven. The day of the burglary, he wore a black baseball cap, white T-shirt and shorts.

The vehicle is a 2009 or 2010, silver Ford F-150 pickup truck, with a silver bed cover and chrome placed around the tail lights, tailgate and door handles.

Nothing was taken from the home and the woman was not injured.

Detective Marty Barrett said the incident bears similarities to a string of burglaries committed last summer.

However, he stopped short of saying the Linfield Street break-in was related to last year's burglaries.

Barrett said the vehicle description is the same, but witnesses described two suspects in the 2010 burglaries and the description of suspects in last summer's break-ins did not match the April 27 burglary, the detective said.

In last summer’s burglaries, committed in July and August, homes near street corners were burglarized by two men in a pickup truck. The men were seeking electronic equipment.

Anyone with information about any of the burglaries should contact Detective Marty Barrett at 625-914-8288.