Rocklin Burglary Suspects Caught With Help Of Social Media
ROCKLIN (CBS13) – Police in Rocklin are thanking social media for helping them catch a couple of burglary suspects Saturday morning.
Officers were called out to the 3700 block of Clover Valley Road a little before 8:30 a.m. after a suspicious car – with its license plates covered – was seen in a driveway of a home.
A man and a woman inside the car were reportedly seen stealing stuff from the home, police say. The couple was already gone by the time officers showed up, however.
A little later, after a search of the area, officers were waved down by a resident of a home along the 3800 block of Rawhide Road. The resident said that a suspicious woman had used some sort of ruse to get the resident to let her inside. That woman – identified as 25-year-old Sacramento resident Chelsey Crooks – was soon arrested and is suspected to be one of the suspects.
Police then sent out alerts through their social media channels, asking residents to be on the lookout for the second suspect. Numerous tips then began to trickle in.
Following up on one of those tips, officers showed up near Rawhide Road and Dry Gultch Court on a report of a suspicious man. Once officers converged on the area, a man was spotted.
The man – identified as 31-year-old Rocklin resident Channing Sharp – allegedly ran from officers once he was spotted, but he was also taken into custody.
Crooks and Sharp have since been booked into Placer County Jail.
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