Four people arrested on camera for home invasion – Palo Alto Daily Post

Palo Alto police have arrested four Chilean citizens on suspicion of breaking into a home, police said today (June 17).

The owner of a home in the 2300 block of Byron Street called police at 9:29 p.m. Saturday to report that she had received an alert from her home security system that someone was in her home, a police statement said.

The woman, who is currently abroad, was able to observe strangers breaking into her house via her surveillance cameras.

Police went to the woman’s home and saw three people running out of the building and jumping over fences. Police arrested all three, the statement said.

One of the men said his foot was in pain because he had jumped from the second-story balcony. Paramedics examined him at the scene, police said.

A fourth person, a 17-year-old, was found hiding in a black 2018 Chevrolet Tahoe with Ford license plates, police said.

The burglars broke open a glass door on the second-floor balcony, ransacked two bedrooms and loaded items from the house into two bags, police said.

The police found a window opener and a flashlight that the burglars threw away as they fled.

One of the men had two expensive watches with him when he was arrested, a men’s and a women’s watch. Another had a diamond ring in his sock, police said.

The men told police they were visiting from Chile. Police arrested two 17-year-olds, whose names were not released, as well as Christian Cervera Colan, 23, and Jorge Pacheco, 18.

In recent years, police departments have repeatedly warned about Chilean gangs engaging in “criminal tourism” in California.

Atherton Chief Steven McCulley said in February 2022 that Chilean gang members from Los Angeles had burglarized six homes in the city within a month, and Hillsborough police have issued similar warnings.

–Employee report