Overview
- Ricardo Otero, 41, was arrested outside a Salinas courtroom after a regional auto‑theft team saw him park a car reported stolen from San Jose on Tuesday.
- Members of the Multi‑Agency Detail Combating Auto Theft, a task force focused on stolen vehicles, watched Otero arrive and alerted deputies who detained him without incident.
- Jail records show Otero was booked on unlawful driving or taking of a vehicle, committing a felony while on bail, and driving with a suspended license.
- He was held at the Monterey County Jail in lieu of $35,000 bail, with no court disposition reported yet.
- Otero had been scheduled to appear for a pending auto‑theft case, a sequence that underscores how investigators use interagency data to track cross‑county thefts and make arrests at public sites like courthouses.