An alert from an automated license plate reader on a suspect vehicle led to the arrest Thursday of three men believed responsible for multiple residential burglaries in the area.
On Thursday morning, Oct. 10, a Redlands Police detective received the alert on a Mercedes C320 as it exited Interstate 10 at Ford Street. The vehicle had previously been identified as a suspect vehicle in a residential burglary in September in the 1600 block of Camelot Drive.
Officers from the department’s Special Enforcement Team responded to the area. After locating the vehicle circling in a neighborhood off of Reservoir Road, officers began surveillance on the vehicle.
Eventually the suspect vehicle picked up two other men before fleeing the area at a high rate of speed. Patrol units attempted to stop the vehicle but the driver failed to yield.
Police followed the vehicle, assisted by the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department’s helicopter, 40-King as it entered the westbound Interstate 10. The vehicle eventually crashed into a power pole on H Street at Baseline in San Bernardino and the three men fled on foot.
Bystanders directed officers in the direction the suspects fled and, after a lengthy search by Redlands Police and San Bernardino Police officers and San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies, all three men were located.
Inside the suspect vehicle, police located property that had been stolen from a home in the 800 block of Lexington Lane.
Arrested were the driver, Quintel Demetrice Cail, 22, Keith Anthony Cail, 21, both of San Bernardino, and Sincere Simeon Henderson, 18, of Turlock. In addition to at least two Redlands burglaries, the men are suspects in additional residential burglaries in San Bernardino. All three men are being held at Central Detention Center in San Bernardino.
“Thanks to the combination of great police work and the use of ALPR technology, these subjects will be held accountable for their crimes,” said Redlands Chief of Police Chris Catren.