Stanislaus deputies interrupt break-in at Crossroads Elementary in Riverbank, arrest 2
Responding to multiple alarms, Stanislaus County sheriff’s deputies interrupted a burglary at Crossroads Elementary School in Riverbank on Monday night. Two 18-year-old men were caught in an open lot near the school after jumping a fence to flee, Sgt. Luke Schwartz said.
The men smashed classroom windows to gain entrance and were attempting to steal P.E. equipment, the sergeant said. School custodian Jose Jimenez on Tuesday morning swept up the shattered glass and showed a barrel of plastic street-hockey sticks and a pile of pucks that he said the two teens had moved toward a classroom door.
Sylvan Union School District Superintendent Debra Hendricks said three windows were broken at the school. Two were vertical windows next to classroom doors, allowing the intruders to enter. The third was a horizontal window on the rear of a row of classrooms on the north edge of the campus. It appears to have had something thrown at it, Jimenez said.
Noah Paroli and Kolton Vaughn were booked on suspicion of burglary and conspiracy to commit a crime, Schwartz said. They did not show up in a search of the Sheriff’s Department’s in-custody log Tuesday morning.
Jimenez said this is not the first time windows have been broken at the school. It happened once before in recent months, he said.
This story was originally published July 9, 2019 at 6:45 AM.
