Two men who took part in a burglary ring in San Diego plead guilty to five years in prison on Thursday in San Diego Superior Court. Police attention was brought to the duo when they stole a high-performance car worth $250,000 from a Rancho Santa Fe home. Along with the Ford GT, Gabriel Castano and George Moore stole valuable items from the residence. They have a sentencing hearing scheduled for March 11th.
The duo used a warehouse in Vista to store stolen cars and valuable goods. In addition to the theft in Rancho Santa Fe, they were accused of stealing property from residences in La Jolla and University City. The stolen items included jewelry, two Porsches and artwork valued up to a million dollars.
Despite a bad economy with high unemployment and low wages, burglaries and vehicle thefts are down throughout San Diego over the past ten years. According to San Diego police crime statistics, the raw number of crimes committed in the county is the lowest since the 1970's. Crimes, including murders, larceny, rape and violent crimes peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s. That period of time lead to a large number of laws in California and nationwide that increased prison sentences for those convicted. The most notorious legislation was the Three Strikes law, which you can read more about here.
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