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FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The Blythe Police Department was conducting an investigation into some

complaints of identity theft involving fictitious checks. By May 22, 2008, the

investigating officers had focused their suspicions on defendant. Officer Scott Adams

had learned that defendant was residing with his girlfriend in her apartment, so he and

Corporal Heriberto Cavazos went there to conduct a parole search of defendant’s

residence. As the officers entered the apartment to conduct the search, defendant fled out

a window.

People v. Cruz (1988) 44 Cal.3d 1247, 1249.

2 The search turned up mail addressed to persons who had been victims of identity

theft and a laptop computer connected to a printer, with blank checks loaded into the

printer. The blank checks corresponded to other, completed checks that had been created

in the names of some of the identity theft victims. The victims had not authorized checks

to be written on their accounts to the payees of the completed checks. The officers also

found drugs and drug paraphernalia in the master bedroom, as well as two rounds of

firearm ammunition.

As a result of the investigation, and after a preliminary…