People v. Roggero CA5

FACTS

Prosecution Case On February 10, 2012, Bill Cook, who worked as the operations manager for Wilbur-Ellis Company in Merced County, was notified that the company had been burglarized.3 A Freightliner truck that was stolen was tracked by computer using its global positioning system (GPS) to appellant’s address. Cook knew appellant’s address. The company uses GPS systems for its tractors to plow straight rows in fields. Part of the tractor GPS was made of metal. A GPS for a tractor was also stolen. Other pieces of farm equipment that belonged to Wilbur-Ellis, including fertilizer knives and clamps, a tool bar, and the bay station base of a GPS antenna that sits on the ground, were retrieved from Atwater Iron & Metal. Other parts of the GPS antenna were also found.

Further date references are to the year 2012.

3 Cook retrieved only some of the property that was stolen. The rest already had been cut up. Approximately 20 gallons of fuel was also stolen. Timothy Warner worked as ranch coordinator for Wilbur-Ellis and was responsible for dispatching the company’s trucks. Warner explained that the GPS for the Freightliner truck placed it at 897 Roosevelt Road in El Nido at…