A man has been arrested in connection with several Bay Area school burglaries in which he is suspected of infiltrating classrooms to steal teachers’ credit cards, police said Wednesday.
Christopher Britton — who has been linked to school campus thefts in Solano, Contra Costa, Marin, Alameda and Yolo counties — was arrested in Walnut Creek this week while returning a rental vehicle that police suspect was used during one of the burglaries, the Fremont Police Department said in a statement.
Fremont police have been searching for Britton since Oct. 3, when a Fremont elementary school reported a suspicious individual walking around campus, police said. The individual, later identified as Britton, gave school staff conflicting reasoning for being on school grounds and left. Soon after, schools across the district began reporting missing items from classrooms, the statement said…