Morgan Hill
– Sheriff’s deputies responded to a woman’s report that a man
was breaking into her home in unincorporated Morgan Hill to find
him still trying to gain entry using a three-foot-long crowbar.
Morgan Hill – Sheriff’s deputies responded to a woman’s report that a man was breaking into her home in unincorporated Morgan Hill to find him still trying to gain entry using a three-foot-long crowbar.
Julio Cesar Rodriguez, 30, was arrested about 1pm Saturday and is now a suspect in at least one other residential burglary, said Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Lt. Dale Unger.
A woman was in her home near San Pedro and Murphy avenues in unincorporated Morgan Hill, just south of East Dunne Avenue, when she reportedly saw a man with a crowbar attempting to break in through her sliding glass door, Unger said. She called 9-1-1, but hung up before speaking to the dispatcher, and fled the house.
“She did the right thing,” Unger said. “Any time you call 9-1-1, that’s going to go through. Even if you hang up, we’ll know there’s a problem there.
“The good news is that it was really nice that Sgt. Holborn was in the right place at the right time, so we could get this guy,” Unger said.
Sgt. Al Holborn said he was less than two minutes away from the woman’s home when the call came in.
As he pulled up to her house, she emerged from a neighbor’s house, on the phone with the 9-1-1 dispatcher, to tell him where the suspect was last seen.
“He was at the back of the house where the sliding glass door was – right where she said he was,” Holborn said.
Rodriguez originally did not comply and was arrested at gunpoint, Holborn said.
The deputy found the man empty-handed, but later found Rodriguez’ crowbar nearby, leaning against the house.
Rodriguez is believed to be a resident of a migrant camp in unincorporated southeast Morgan Hill, near Tennant Avenue.
