GILROY
– City police may be close to arresting a male suspect who they
believe was one of four burglars at a Zales jewelry store at the
Gilroy Premium Outlets on Jan. 8.
GILROY – City police may be close to arresting a male suspect who they believe was one of four burglars at a Zales jewelry store at the Gilroy Premium Outlets on Jan. 8.
The suspect lives in Los Angeles and is on parole, Gilroy police Sgt. Noel Provost said Thursday morning. Police already have contacted his parole officer there.
The four burglars were captured on Zales’ video camera and led police on a high-speed car chase early on the morning of Jan. 8. Police have arrested a man and a woman, both of Los Angeles: the suspected getaway car driver, 27-year-old Victoria Jefferson, and Willie Mack Cross, 37, who police believe was one of the four men seen ransacking the jewelry store.
As for the remaining two burglars, Provost said detectives have possible suspects but nothing conclusive yet.
Police said they saw Jefferson let the four men out of the car on state Highway 152, east of Gilroy. Police caught Cross on foot in a four-hour manhunt but believe three burglars got away.
Police and California Highway Patrol officers recovered $125,000 in jewelry from the trunk of the car Jefferson was driving, which the CHP stopped on Interstate Highway 5 by puncturing its tires with a “spike strip.”
While getting in position to help pursue the suspected thieves, Gilroy police Officer Jimmy Callahan crashed the patrol car he was driving into a tree on Arroyo Circle, near Wal-Mart. Callahan sustained minor injuries. The CHP has not yet finished a report on the accident.
