A 62-year-old man suspected of having several stolen items from burglaries in and around Blythe was behind bars Thursday.
Craig Mitchell Roberts of Blythe was arrested Wednesday morning on suspicion of burglary, vehicle theft, being in possession of stolen property and being in possession of burglary tools, according to Sgt. Christian Bloomquist of the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department.
Bloomquist said that deputies from the Colorado River sheriff’s station, members of the Special Enforcement Team, and the Investigations Bureau served a search warrant at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday in the 600 block of North Fifth Street.
“This search warrant resulted from information developed during an investigation of a residential burglary in the North River area, an unincorporated area of Blythe,” Bloomquist wrote in a statement. “During the search warrant service, deputies recovered several stolen items from the burglary, as well as additional stolen items from other open cases in the Blythe area.”
Roberts was subsequently arrested and booked into the Blythe Jail, where he remains held on $35,000 bail.
Anyone with information about the burglary was asked to call Deputy Bistline with the Colorado River sheriff’s station at 760-921-7900.