Authorities announced that a fourth man was given a lengthy prison sentence for his role in an Orange County residential burglary ring, but a fifth man connected to the ring remains a fugitive.
According to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, Erick Daniel Soria is a third-striker who helped run a scheme responsible for the theft of $1.9 million in designer watches and purses, jewelry, guns, and cash across 44 residential burglaries in Orange and San Bernardino counties between August 2019 and February 2020.
In 2021, Soria was awaiting trial on multiple felonies in connection with the incidents when a judge denied prosecutors’ request to hold him without bail. Instead, according to the DA’s Office, Judge Larry Yellin set Soria’s bail at $750,000 and Soria posted it along with a $500,000 bond after pleading guilty to another residential burglary in L.A. County.
He then fled to Mexico, and it took two years before the U.S. Marshals Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force captured him and brought him back to America to face felony charges in connection with the rash of burglaries targeting homes in Fullerton, Anaheim Hills, Villa Park, Lake Forest, Yorba Linda, Buena Park and Irvine.
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The DA’s Office said that Soria eventually pleaded guilty in April 2025 to 26 felony counts of first-degree burglary and three felony counts of attempted first-degree burglary, and he was officially sentenced Monday to 61 years-to-life in prison…