People v. Pedersen CA1/4

I. FACTS

A. December 26, 2012 offense On Christmas evening in 2012, Katie McAfee returned to her apartment in Santa Rosa and parked her Honda Civic in the carport. She went to bed at 8:00 p.m. because she had to get up for work at 3:45 a.m. At about 3:30 a.m. on December 26, 2012, Officer Kyle Boyd was dispatched to the vicinity of 825 Russell Avenue to investigate a suspicious vehicle. Boyd found a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of a small strip mall to the east of the apartment complex at 825 Russell Avenue. As he approached the green Honda Civic, he used his patrol vehicle’s spotlight to illuminate it and saw defendant sitting in the passenger seat. Defendant exited from the car and walked toward Boyd. Boyd asked for defendant’s identification and defendant provided his California identification card. Boyd had no response to Boyd’s inquiry regarding what defendant was doing in the car in the parking lot late at night. Officer Jeffrey Woods arrived on the scene to assist Boyd. He searched the car and found that the stereo had been taken out of the dashboard and was on the seat of the car. Debris and clothing were in the front and back seats of the car. Woods determined…