People v. Tapia CA2/8

FACTS

On October 21, 2018, Lloyd Quiggle and Patricia Ziegler were inside their home in Manhattan Beach when they heard a loud noise. Quiggle found a stepladder propped against the scaffolding surrounding their house, which was in the process of being painted. He then heard crashing glass and ran towards the sound. He yelled to Ziegler that someone was on the scaffolding. At the front of the house, he saw Tapia climbing down the scaffolding, wearing white painter’s overalls and a ventilator mask with “a small crowbar in her pocket.” He

2 demanded to know what she was doing. She said “sorry, sir,” and ran away with Quiggle in pursuit. When Quiggle saw Tapia had stopped to take off the painter’s overalls and mask, he took a photo to help the police apprehend her. Quiggle fractured his foot trying to jump over a wall while chasing Tapia. The investigating officer recovered the overalls, the ventilator mask, and the crowbar where Tapia had left them. Quiggle and Ziegler discovered a broken window on the third floor, a cut in a first floor window screen, a cut in the third floor sliding glass door screen, and a tear in the plastic covering the master bedroom exterior door. The window…