Police Say Pair Admit to String of Burglaries
Two Woodland Hills men arrested on suspicion of trying to break into an auto have admitted to burglarizing nine homes while the occupants were asleep, Los Angeles police said Thursday.
Marquise Hamm, 20, and Edgar Simmons, 19, have each been charged with four counts of burglary and were being held in Los Angeles County Jail, Lt. George Rock said. A third man, Rahssan Tanner, 19, also of Woodland Hills, was arrested separately on suspicion of driving a stolen car, Rock said. Formal charges had not yet been filed against him, Rock said.
Rock said investigators found the wallets and credit cards of four burglary victims inside an apartment the three men share after Tanner’s arrest there. He said police consider burglaries committed while residents are home, which they call “hot prowls,” particularly dangerous because of the greater risk of injury if a victim wakes up.
Residents were awakened in at least two of the burglaries tied to Hamm and Simmons, according to Rock, but the pair immediately fled and no one was injured.
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