On Sunday evening, May 5, the Bishop Police Department arrested a Bishop serial burglar. It started when resident Dylan Rivera noticed some of his belongings were missing, like his iPhone, his shoes and a couple of shirts.
Rivera said he decided to put up surveillance cameras all around the outside and inside of his house to catch the crime in action. He said it wasn’t the first time he caught suspect Rolando “Rollie” Garcia in his house. Rivera said he had caught him a few weeks before trying to steal some of his belongings and confronted him, but Garcia returned to try again.
“It made me sad and scared. Sad because my mom worked hard for all the stuff she got me and scared because it’s a small town and anything can happen, but I’m the only person who caught it on camera, and that’s kind of scary,” Rivera said.
Rivera’s call is what got Garcia back on the police’s radar. Garcia had prior theft and burglary cases in the City of Bishop.
“They got a name and an area where he may have dumped some of that stolen property. They were able to recover some of the property. They located the area, he took off on foot, and officers had a brief foot pursuit,” Bishop Chief of Police Edward Day said.