By Daily Press staff
Within 10 minutes, police on Sunday were called to two different crime scenes on Colorado Avenue — one a residential burglary, the other a business that was broken into.
At 10:17 p.m., Santa Monica Police officers went to the 2200 block of Fourth Street where a resident said she had heard some noises inside her apartment. When she went to investigate, she saw the suspect inside her residence and then fled to her neighbor’s apartment and called the police.
Responding officers set up a perimeter around the apartment complex and with the assistance of the police K-9 unit, officers located the suspect inside the victim’s apartment.
The suspect was arrested and booked for residential burglary and probation violation. He is being held at the Santa Monica Jail without bail. He has been identified as Mitsuya Tanaka, 35, a transient.
At 10:08 p.m., Santa Monica Police officers responded to the 2200 block of Colorado Avenue and noticed that a suspect had removed the window from the door leading into a business. Apparently, the suspect entered and left the business before police got there. Officers reviewed a videotape of the incident which showed the suspect breaking into the business, police said. Officers searched the immediate area and located the person who was depicted in the videotape. Officers arrested the suspect and recovered evidence linking him to the crime, police said.
The suspect was arrested and booked at the Santa Monica Jail. He has been identified as Lance Manuel Araujo, 46, a transient. His bail has been set at $20,000.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 25, 2004. Read the original PDF.