A young mother woke up around 2 a.m. to feed her infant child when she heard people talking just outside her Newhall apartment, looked out her window and saw a sedan parked nearby with no plates.
After waking up again later that morning, she realized her car had been broken into and then ransacked, so she reported the crime to the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station. A report from officials indicated there was security footage showing a suspect wearing a black “LA” baseball hat with white lettering, a black hooded sweatshirt, baggy blue jeans and an oversized white belt with black writing. Local detectives declined comment, saying they considered it an open and active investigation, but evidence cited in sworn statements indicates the suspects are known to neighbors and detectives for involvement in several investigations, including the shooting of an off-duty law enforcement officer in Valencia.
Not long after filing a report at the SCV Sheriff’s Station, the victim contacted the station to say some of her items were found at a trailer park not far from her home on Railroad Avenue. “The victim informed us that she and her husband drove through the local neighborhood and was [sic] directed by local residents where (the juvenile suspect) lived,” according to a statement by the lead investigator in court records obtained by The Signal. “The victim drove to the trailer park located on Railroad Avenue and in plain view of the property (front yard not gated) she i.
