Police agencies in the Tri-Valley and Central Valley recently joined forces to arrest a pair of Stockton men allegedly responsible for residential burglaries in the region.
The two suspects have since been booked into the San Joaquin County Jail on multiple charges.
“This case is a reminder of how effective public safety work depends on coordination, communication, and trust between agencies,” the Livermore Police Department stated in a June 23 Facebook post. “When agencies work together, our communities are safer.”
According to the Livermore Police Department, officers responded to an in-progress residential burglary on Old Oak Road on May 30. Around the same time, the Pleasanton Police Department notified Livermore police that a “vehicle connected to a residential burglary in their city may have traveled into Livermore.”
“Using real-time information from license plate recognition cameras, dispatchers and officers tracked the suspect vehicle, a dark-colored Jaguar with a stolen license plate, as it traveled through Livermore and toward eastbound Interstate 580,” Livermore police stated.
Officers located the vehicle on I-580 near Greenville Road in Livermore but lost track of it near the Altamont Pass. That was when Livermore police notified nearby agencies, including the California Highway Patrol, about the situation.
“CHP Stockton later located the vehicle, pursued it into Stockton, and took two people into custody after they fled on foot,” LPD officials said. “Video evidence linked the vehicle and suspects to the Livermore burglary, and Pleasanton Police recovered jewelry from their burglary inside the vehicle.”
The suspects arrested in the early morning of May 31 were 29-year-old Alonso Godinez and 21-year-old Michael Rodrigues. The two Stockton residents have been held at the San Joaquin County Jail since then without the ability to post bail.
According to the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Inmate Locator, Godinez is facing eight felony charges including first degree burglary, carrying a loaded firearm in public, grand theft, receiving known stolen property and vandalism. He also has an obstruction case out of San Joaquin County.
Rodrigues faces three felonies, two of which are for evading — the third is a probation violation. He also has a misdemeanor obstruction charge and other lesser charges for violating probation, parole or other unsupervised release. Both are scheduled for a court appearance Tuesday (June 30).
