SANTA PAULA : House Builder Halts Burglary Next Door
A man constructing a house in Santa Paula stopped a burglary at the residence next door, police said Monday.
Warren Grey, 48, of Santa Paula was working on his house in the 600 block of Peck Road about 1 p.m. Sunday when he noticed a man cutting out the front screen door of the adjacent house, which belongs to his parents, Howard and Lucille Sparkman, Santa Paula Police Cmdr. Bob Gonzales said.
Grey watched for several minutes from his vantage point on his lot, which is uphill from his parents’ house, Gonzales said.
He then went next door and confronted the man, talking to him until police arrested him, Gonzales said.
Frank Zakrajshek, 27, of Santa Paula was being held in lieu of $10,000 bail in the Ventura County Jail, a jail spokesman said.
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