note to self: always take broom
Thursday 4 January 2007 | I like a cookie
It didn’t take long for officers to identify a suspect in the burglary of a government building Thursday, according to a police report.
All they had to do was follow a set of footprints in the 8-inch deep snow leading from the crime scene to the spot where they ended, the report says. There, in the parking lot of a nearby apartment complex, they found Mark Mendoza, 31, sweeping snow off his truck, according to the report.
Mendoza refused to allow officers to search his apartment, so a state district court judge signed a search warrant and police later found the missing computer in Mendoza’s closet, the report states.Mendoza is charged with breaking and entering, criminal damage to property, burglary, larceny, and tampering with evidence.
Also with being dopey, and failure to pay attention to where his feet had been. (Thanks to the endlessly entertaining Santa Fe New Mexican.)
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