A 21-year-old suspect has been charged in reference to a string of burglaries focusing on the properties {of professional} athletes within the Seattle space that resulted in additional than $300,000 price of products being stolen.
Earl Henderson Riley IV is dealing with with 4 counts of residential housebreaking and one rely of first-degree theft, based on the King County Prosecuting Legal professional’s Workplace.
Riley is accused of breaking into the properties of athletes together with Seattle Mariners centerfielder Julio Rodriguez, Mariners pitcher Luis Castillo, Seattle Seahawks nice Richard Sherman and Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Blake Snell, who has a house north of Seattle.
Prosecutors have alleged Riley is the mastermind behind the sequence of burglaries, which noticed greater than $6,000 in Louis Vuitton baggage stolen from Castillo and $194,000 in excessive finish purses and jewellery from Rodriguez. The suspect additionally snagged a number of watches price greater than $100,000 from Sherman’s house, and is accused of robbing somebody at gunpoint throughout that housebreaking.
Whereas he did bust into Snell’s residence, nothing was discovered to be stolen. Prosecutors say there was additionally an tried housebreaking on the house of Mariners Corridor of Famer Edgar Martinez.
Many of the stolen gadgets had been later positioned at Riley’s house whereas others had been recovered from his members of the family, who stated the gadgets had been presents. What’s extra, cellphone information positioned Riley within the neighborhood of every of the properties on the time of the burglaries, which occurred between February and Might.
“All people deserve to feel safe in their homes, and our office will continue to hold people accountable for criminal behavior,” King County Prosecuting Legal professional Leesa Manion stated in a press release.
Riley is at the moment being held in at King County Jail on $1 million bail. He’d beforehand been in custody after pleading responsible to a few counts of theft in a separate case. He additionally has one other pending case for trying to elude police and illegal possession of a firearm.
