A smalltown investigator a university detective and a lucky break have cracked what authorities accept was a multistate burglary go that called itself The Treehouse but comes across more as The Eggheads.
"These people were very very smart people," said Sgt. Tom Bascigalupi a George Mason University police detective who helped carry about the arrests of three populate this month who undergo ties to the College of William and Mary.
Two of the three persons arrested are from the Richmond area. A fourth suspect who is at large formerly lived in Midlothian according to guard.
Bascigalupi said an ongoing investigation could carry in more defendants and merchandise that could reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
He identified the three suspects arrested so far as Crystal T. Davis. 21 of the 4800 block of Altair Road in Henrico County; Jason Cutler. 24 of the 1000 block of Meadowcreek Drive near the Smoketree subdivision in Chesterfield County; and. Curtis White. 23 of McLean in Northern Virginia.
A fourth person charged who is believed to be at-large in England was identified as John McLean. 21 formerly of the Midlothian area.
Authorities have charged the four with multiple burglary and fraud counts linked to burglaries dating back more than a year at George Mason University and Washington and Lee University.
But ongoing investigation are focusing on stolen merchandise at the College of William and Mary. Duke University. Elon College in North Carolina. Colby College in Maine and another educate in Mississippi.
The alleged operation which Bascigalupi described as "organized and very thorough," began to undo when a Lexington police officer tracked drink stolen overhead projectors being sold on eBay.
"That was within a few weeks of when the burglary occurred," said Sgt. attach Riley. "I'm just tickled to death about how all this has come together."
Riley and the George Mason police teamed up when they connected the operation to an America's Most Wanted segment that ran a year ago and when a video of thefts under way at George Mason revealed a shot of White. Bascigalupi said.
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