UpdatedThu, Mar 4, 2021 at 9:10 pm PT
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A burglary in Fremont led detectives to a fencing operation in Oakland. (Fremont Police Dept. Evidence Photo)
FREMONT, CA High-end surveying equipment fitted with GPS tracking was stolen from a work truck in Fremont on Jan. 25.
Detectives tracked the stolen items to Oakland, got a search warrant, and recovered the stolen items as well as approximately 100 laptops, surveying and construction tools, cameras, gaming consoles, cellphones, and other electronics.
Police called this a fencing operation.
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The total haul was worth an estimated $400,000.
Fremont Police arrested 36-year old Manuel Velasquez of Oakland on suspicion of possession of stolen property. He was booked at the Fremont City Jail where he was issued a citation with an April 2021 court date due to zero bail, police said in a written report.
An Indian American man was arrested early morning Dec. 8 in Fremont, California, for allegedly setting fire to four residential garage doors.
Serial arsonist Roshan Patel, 44, was arrested at 2:45 a.m. Dec. 8 in the Warm Springs neighborhood of Fremont, as detectives observed him getting out of his car and pouring flammable liquid onto a parked car. They attempted to intervene, but Patel had already set the car on fire. Police arrested him as he ran back to his own car, and extinguished the ignited car with a nearby garden hose.
The suspect was booked at Fremont City Jail, and then transferred to Santa Rita Jail in nearby Dublin. According to his Alameda County Inmate Locator record, Patel has been charged with one felony count of causing fire to an inhabited structure â which carries a sentence of two to four years in state prison â and one misdemeanor charge of causing fire to property, which carries a maximum sentence of one year in county jail.