A 21-year-old man suspected of stealing thousands of dollars worth of tools and other gear from his former employer south of Lake Mathews was out of custody Monday on a $5,000 bond.
Alex Ruben Caballero of San Jacinto was arrested and booked into the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning Thursday on suspicion of embezzlement. Caballero posted bail Sunday and was released, according to jail records.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said that, in the last week of July, a business owner, whose identity was not released, alleged the suspect had hauled away $8,200 in tools and other work equipment from a site in the 17000 block of Multiview Drive, near Gavilan Road, in the unincorporated community of Gavilan Hills, roughly a mile southeast of Lake Mathews…