P.
P. v. Holman CA1/2
Opinion
Opinion
Richman, J.
background from the probation report.
1 B.J. ran back to his mother’s bedroom, opened the bedroom door and looked down the hallway, and saw the woman carrying his laptop computer out of the home. He looked outside the bedroom window facing the front driveway and saw the woman in a white vehicle. B.J. recorded the license plate number in his IPOD, and telephoned his mother, before calling 911 to report the incident. B.J. provided a detailed description of the woman to investigators. B.J. also described the stolen laptop as a black Hewlett Packard computer with a stain on it from a spilled drink, with a key missing from the keyboard. A deputy conducted a records check on the license plate provided by B.J. and it revealed a white Volkswagen registered to defendant. The records check also showed defendant was on active parole for burglary, and lived approximately two blocks from the victim’s home. Later that same day, a deputy observed a white Volkswagen Passat driving eastbound near Calistoga Road bearing a license plate that matched the description provided by B.J. The deputy effected an enforcement stop and found defendant driving the vehicle, with her 16-year-old daughter in the…