People v. Toral CA6

I. BACKGROUND

A. The Burglaries On February 22, 2023, D.D. was playing with her two dogs in her yard. Noticing that sliding glass doors into her house were ajar, D.D. checked her security cameras and saw that someone had earlier opened one of the doors. After calling the police, D.D. found several things missing, including some jewelry. The following day, A.K. was gardening in her yard and unable to see the front door of her house, which was unlocked. When she went inside, she noticed several things were missing, including her wallet, which contained both a credit card and a debit card. A.K. called her bank, which informed her that in the last hour there had been three charges to her credit card: one at 3:56 p.m. in a clothing store, a second at 4:02 p.m. in a convenience store, and a third at 4:09 p.m. in a liquor store. After A.K. called the police, an officer visited the stores and obtained surveillance footage that showed a man using A.K.’s credit card at the specified times. Two days later, H.A. received fraud alerts from her bank and discovered a voice message from a neighbor saying that earlier someone had entered her property. H.A. searched for, but could not find, her…