(Butte County, CA) – In Butte County Court, 35-year-old Jose Florendino Tellez Garcia was found guilty by a jury yesterday, on two counts of grand theft, three counts of grant theft auto and felony identity theft, in a Gridley crime spree last September.
That included stealing a Ford F-250 on the 20th, a Toyota pickup on the 26th and a Chevy Silverado on the 27th. When caught by Gridley Police that day, officers found the keys to the stolen Toyota in the Chevy. Additionally, surveillance video from an Oroville gas station on September 25th shows Garcia filling up the stolen Toyota, using a stolen credit card.
Garcia faces 16 years in state prison at sentencing on April 24th.