Amador County – The Amador County Sheriff’s Department on Wednesday announced the arrest of a Volcano couple in relation to a burglary in Pioneer in July, with help from the Nevada County Narcotics Taskforce.
The Amador Sheriff’s Department said Doris Patricia Anderson (also known as Doris Feise) age 45, of Volcano, was arrested Dec. 29 while driving a 1987 BMW that was taken from a home in Pioneer on July 7, 2010. Her estranged husband, Richard Gene Anderson, 46, of Volcano, was also arrested at his home, where a lawn tractor stolen from the Pioneer burglary was found in his possession.
Both Andersons were being held without bail due to charges of probation violation, and both have pending charges related to residential burglary and/or possession of stolen property.
The July 7 burglary of a home in a secluded Pioneer area, included theft of a “significant amount of property,” the Sheriff’s Department said. Items included several firearms, televisions, the lawn tractor, a 1983 Chevrolet pickup and the BMW. No viable suspects were identified at the time.
On Dec. 21, Amador Sheriff’s detectives were contacted by a potential burglary victim in South Carolina, reporting that a home of her recently deceased stepmother may have been burglarized in Volcano. The report included theft of a vehicle.
Also Dec. 21, ACSO detectives “received information from the Nevada County Narcotics Task Force that several suspects from Nevada County were traveling to Amador County for the purpose of burglarizing an unoccupied residence.”
Based on the information from Nevada County, Amador Sheriff’s detectives “were able to link the suspects in Nevada County to the burglarized Volcano home, and a 1987 Mercury Topaz stolen from the same residence.” Further investigation connected the Nevada County suspects, to the BMW stolen from Pioneer in July.
Nevada Narcotics surveillance in Nevada City led to Doris Anderson’s arrest in the BMW, and when arrested, Anderson “was found in possession of credit cards, personal identifying information, documents and records belonging to the deceased Amador County resident.”
Property stolen from Amador County burglaries was later recovered in Grass Valley, and the Mercury Topaz was discovered abandoned in brush, near Ponderosa Way in Volcano.
Amador detectives are in the process of identifying additional stolen property and suspects, and obtaining arrest warrants for specific suspects in both Amador and Nevada counties.
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