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http://blog.sfgate.com/crime/2013/11/12/120-carls-jr-bill-leads-to-arrests/
Three men and a juvenile were arrested on suspicion of breaking into cars in Rocklin over the weekend after they allegedly used a stolen credit card to buy $120 worth of food at a Carls Jr. and then posted a photo of it on Instagram, Rocklin police said.
The thieves smashed the windows of four cars parked in the Blue Oaks Town Center and the Staybridge Suites Hotel parking lots of the Placer County city between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. Saturday night, taking wallets and GPS devices, said Rocklin police Capt. Lon Milka.
Soon after, the thieves used a stolen credit card at the Carls Jr. that shared a parking lot with the Staybridge hotel, Milka said. He said they paid not just for their heaping helping of food but for the order for the car behind them.
The fast-food joint doesnt often see $120 orders, and the manager became suspicious, Milka said. Because the order was going to take a while, the manager asked the suspects to wait in the parking lot. When employees brought them their food, they took down the license plate number.
Later, one of the Carls Jr. employees heard a theft victim receive a call from a credit card company reporting that the card had been used at the restaurant. That same credit card was also used that night at a McDonalds, Milka said.
The victim notified police of the Carls Jr. purchases when she went to file a police report, Milka said, and officers were able to track the license plate number the Carls Jr. employees had taken to a 1994 Buick registered in Sacramento.
Acting on a tip, the day shift patrol team went on Instagram the next day and found photos from the Carls Jr. transaction. They were able to not only confirm the license plate number from the photos, but they learned through comments on the photo that the suspects planned to break into more cars that night, Milka said.
Officers spotted the car in town about 9 p.m. Sunday and pulled over the suspects. A search of the car turned up stolen items from the Saturday night heist, as well as items that had been stolen in nearby Roseville just a few hours earlier, Milka said.
Tavion Spignor, 19, Leroy Jackson, 25, and Malek Morgan, 20, all of Sacramento, were booked into Placer County jail on suspicion of auto burglary and possession of stolen property. The juvenile, who police would not identify because of his age, was booked into juvenile hall.
Milka credited great police work for the arrests but also acknowledged that it was the hungry hustlers hubris that helped bring them down.
If they hadnt been so braggadocios on Instagram, we wouldnt have caught up with them so quickly, he said. I think it saved a lot of people from being burglarized this month.
