Deputies Arrest Early Morning Car Burglar

Wednesday - May 07, 2008 - 4:00 a.m. - Newhall:

Commit Crime? - Not in the Santa Clarita Valley -  Deputies arrested a Sylmar man on burglary charges early Wednesday morning.  Deputies patrolling a Newhall neighborhood, near 6th Street and Pine Street, in the early morning hours spotted a man walking between cars and looking into car windows.  As they approached, the man threw a screwdriver. 

The deputies detained him and conducted further investigation.  The deputies report that they recovered a car stereo, amplifiers, speaker boxes, and other items in the grass, near the sidewalk where the suspect was standing.  The suspect reportedly led the deputies to two vehicles parked in a nearby parking garage.  The deputies found both vehicles had been broken into and the items they had recovered were apparently stolen from those vehicles.   

The suspect, Angel Brianos, MH/25, of Sylmar, was booked at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station on a felony Burglary charge and a misdemeanor charge of Possession of Burglary Tools.  He is being held in lieu of $20,000 bail pending future court proceedings.         

The investigation is ongoing and there is no further information at this time.  -ref 08076

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