Feb. 02--Two suspects captured on surveillance tape using a stolen credit card in the wake of a weekend residential burglary near Sebastopol were later identified and arrested thanks to a Cotati police officer who recognized those in the video as suspects in his own case, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said.
Petaluma residents Keith Van Guilder and Charr Willis, both 40, were both out on bail in another case involving conspiracy and stolen property when they were arrested on a new charges Wednesday, the sheriff's office said.
Authorities believe it was they who broke into a Hessel Road-area home on Sunday while the residents were at church. When the victims returned home, they found their credit cards, checkbook and jewelry had been stolen.
Later in the day, one of their stolen credit cards turned up at a CVS store in Rohnert Park, where surveillance video captured a man and a woman using the card, authorities said.
Cotati police received a bulletin with photos of the suspects, and an officer investigating a residential burglary there recognized them, providing names to sheriff's detectives, authorities said.
Cotati police officials were not available Thursday to discuss the case.
The pair was spotted in a rental car Wednesday near the Coddingtown Mall in Santa Rosa and was arrested -- the car yielding drugs and stolen property seized by authorities, the sheriff's office said.
Both were booked into the Sonoma County Jail for suspected possession of drugs for sale, transportation of drugs, burglary, grand theft, theft of a credit card, conspiracy, and committing a felony while out on bail.
Additional charges were expected, the sheriff's office said.
Van Guilder remained in custody on Thursday, with bail of $40,000.
Willis had been released, jail personnel said.
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