A Marin County man finished his weekend in jail after a series of burglaries at area businesses led to his arrest in the early hours of Monday morning, as detailed in a Central Marin Police Authority press release.
During the night of Sunday, January 12, a handful of San Rafael businesses were the victims of so-called “window smash burglaries,” in the words of CMPA Sergeant Julie Gorwood, who wrote the press release. CMPA officers searched the downtown San Rafael and San Anselmo areas for evidence of similar crimes during the early morning hours, according to CMPA Corporal Michael Mejia. At around 3:45 a.m. Monday, an officer in San Anselmo found that the Bolinas Avenue Market at 4 Bolinas Avenue had a shattered glass door and that the destruction appeared to have occurred recently.
Officers on the scene determined which items had been stolen from the market, and reviewed video surveillance from the interior of the building that showed a man taking the items. CMPA officers on patrol encountered 42-year-old Miguel Parra, who is known to area police,“walking down the street nearby where the crime occurred,” explained Mejia. Officers stopped Parra at the intersection of College Avenue and Kent Avenue in Kentfield.
The officers “were able to match his description and the items he was carrying” to the suspect recorded on the video at Bolinas Avenue Market, Mejia said.
Officers arrested Parra and took him to the CMPA Larkspur station, later booking him at Marin County Jail on charges of burglary and violation of probation.
CMPA has not yet determined whether Parra was involved in the earlier window smash burglaries, but San Rafael police are investigating this possibility, according to Mejia.
