On Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 at approximately 10:34 a.m., Sheriff’s Service Specialist Barbara Calvert was dispatched to a report of a commercial burglary at a storage facility where several storage units were broken into.
One of the storage units had a quad and a Rhino stolen from it. The items taken were stored in the same garage, but belonged to different family members. A few days later, one of the victims located and recovered his quad that was parked in the desert near North Star, in the City of Victorville. Then a family member located what sounded like the other victim’s stolen Rhino listed for sale on Craigslist. An inquiry was made and the photograph provided by the person attempting to sell the Rhino matched the stolen property. The victim brought this new information to the Victorville Police Station’s Detective Bureau where a phone call was made and arrangements to meet and purchase the Rhino from the suspected thieves. The suspects arranged for a meeting in the same area of the desert where the quad was recovered from. The meeting was successful in recovering the victim’s Rhino, but the suspect evaded deputies and fled the area. In his haste, the suspect left behind evidence that linked him to the Craigslist advertisement and other information that revealed the suspect’s identity as Terrence Scott, 21.
A search warrant was served at suspect Scott’s residence in the 13000 block of San Carlos Ct. Victorville. As deputies and detectives served the search warrant, suspect Scott fled from a second story window and fled the area. Through investigation it was learned that Alhakim Shabazz aided suspect Scott by harboring him in his residence. Alhakim Shabazz was later arrested on December 30th, 2010 on charges of PC32-Aiding, abetting or harboring a fugitive.
Ongoing investigation led to the arrest of suspect Jeremy Hall, 20 who was arrested and booked on charges on PC459-Commercial burglary and PC10851-Grand Theft Auto. Suspect Terrence Scott is still wanted for questioning in reference to this investigation. Anyone with information to his whereabouts is asked to contact Detective John Wickum at 760-241-2911 or remain anonymous by calling We Tip at 800-78-CRIME.
You gotta love stories like this. Most criminals aren’t that smart. A year ago while on a photoshoot I heard the sounds of rambunctious boys outside while I was shooting. When I got outside I quickly identified where the sounds were coming from. 3 boys 2 about 12 and one 8 had been heaving big rocks at my car. I was in a somewhat rural area and ran down the street and yelled I’m going to get you. Went back to my car, made a u turn and drove about 150 feet before I came across the boys. I immediately jumped out of my car with a large telephoto lens mounted and started taking their pictures and yelling,,,,, why did you rock my car? they denied it, I told them I have pictures of them in the camera doing it. They immediately confessed. The ring leader said well people steal stuff of mine and break my things etc. i knew at that point he was a young sociopath. I was right. Kid had thrown his little brother down the stairs, set fire in the house and in the forest down the street, vandalized the neighbor car in which we were at the time. The neighbor called the cops. I told them the story while the boys new they were busted and I told the cops about the camera pics and the cops played along with me and told the kids I had pics of them. They confessed to the cops. To make a long story shorter. If I were to press charges the kids would have gone to juvenal hall, the record which also affects parents now would have appeared on the mother of the bad boy’s grant. She was trying to become a nurse. In the end I got $166 cash from the parents for each kids to pay for the deductible. I knew the other 12 year old was a good kid with the wrong boy so I made a deal with his parents to pay the $166 and I would get to lecture him. I did and explained that he was lucky to have good parents and that if he didn’t want to end up in prison he needed to get a new friend that wasn’t going to lead him into bad things. The parents were glad that I spoke to him and I felt good about his 2nd chance. I needed one and someone gave it to me. I was glad to pass it on. The car, $4,400 in damage.
They now are dealing with my insurance company. I have no hope for the bad kid. The sheriffs and I agree that he’s going to end up in prison for murder or something else very serious.
Oh yeah, the kids confessed because they thought the pictures I had were of them throwing the rocks, I just did a play on words with them. The pics I had were of them standing in the street when I confronted them. Glad they were to dumb to figure that out.
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