Police report break in Zabriskie burglary
Salt Lake City’s Deseret News has reported that police got a break in the case of David Zabriskie’s burglarized home late Tuesday.
The paper reported that Salt Lake City’s Joint Criminal Apprehension Team along with the police department’s Lake Metro Gang Unit recovered one of the vehicles stolen from the house of Salt Lake resident David Zabriskie.
The two law enforcement units were looking for a fugitive late Tuesday night when information they developed led them to a Salt Lake City home. Police did not locate the suspect, but they did unexpectedly find Zabriskie’s 2006 Toyota Scion, said police Sergeant Robin Snyder.
Sometime last week, thieves stole hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of items out of Zabriskie’s house while he was at the Amgen Tour of California. Among those items stolen were the time trial bike Zabriskie used at the Beijing Olympics and 12 other high-end bicycles, two cars, video game systems, a 52-inch flat screen TV, and irreplaceable awards and mementos from the Olympics, Tour de France and other races.
About 11 p.m. Tuesday, while deputies watched Zabriskie’s car parked in a driveway, they watched a man, later identified as 30-year-old Arthur Roll,, come in and out of the residence several times to get in the car, Snyder said.
Roll then rode a bicycle – not one owned by Zabriskie – to a nearby convenience store, where he was arrested on suspicion of possession of a stolen vehicle. According to police, it was the second time that day that Roll had been arrested. Roll had been released on bail earlier in the day after being arrested on four outstanding warrants and for investigation of vehicle burglary and possession of stolen property.
A search of both the car and house at which it was found did not turn up any of Zabriskie’s other possessions. But Snyder said Tuesday’s find and arrest were significant because they marked a starting point.
“We’ll hopefully be able to follow the trail back to the rest of the stolen property and possibly others who might be involved,” she said.
Anyone with any information on this burglary or the location of the items is asked to call Salt Lake City’s Tips for Cash line at (801) 799-INFO (4636). Please reference case #09-32767.
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