Overview
- Police say a group of four juveniles carried out roughly 37 burglaries in Concord and about 40 more across Contra Costa and Solano counties by stealing garage remotes from cars and using them to enter attached garages.
- Investigators released surveillance showing armed behavior during some break-ins, including footage of suspects pointing a gun at the interior door between a garage and a home and one incident in which 14 firearms were taken from a garage.
- Authorities arrested the four juveniles and, after tracing a steady flow of stolen goods, executed a search of 37-year-old Wuillian Cordova-Cubias’s Oakland residence where they recovered about $250,000 worth of items, including roughly 500 power tools, a stolen ATV and an unregistered firearm.
- Cordova-Cubias has been booked on multiple felonies including receiving stolen property, receiving stolen motor vehicles, conspiracy with juvenile co-conspirators, and unlawful firearm possession with sentencing enhancements sought by the Contra Costa Organized Theft Unit.
- Local prosecutors say the case highlights a coordinated fencing pipeline and will be used to support tougher organized-theft prosecutions while communities face higher risks from thefts that escalate into vehicle thefts and weapons recovery.