The Antioch Police Officers Association released the names of suspects involved in multiple burglaries in Antioch over the past several days, even weeks.
The suspect was identified as Casey Beck and Alyssa Castro who were both charged with several crimes to include multiple burglaries. Beck was a parolee at large. Officer’s on day-shift continued to work leads when graveyard went off duty. An officer conducting follow up located the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop.
The vehicle was searched and evidence from several burglaries were located inside to include, Muscle Maker Grill, Tailgaters Sports Bar, Hidden Dragon and possibly The Hillcrest TapHouse. Police are also searching for other possible victims.
In a push-back against orders from Antioch Mayor Lamar Thorpe and city PIO Rolando Bonilla, the Antioch Police Officers Association released names of two suspects arrested in multiple business burglaries.
In their letter, police called the arrests positive for the city, but have not been allowed to release the information which they had planned to do Thursday night but were muzzled. Here is portion of their letter:
Those positive updates to this point have not been released and the APOA has been informed that they will not be released because the Mayor has ordered APD’s leadership not to to release any further information regarding this incident.
So we, as an APOA, will tell you that the person responsible has been arrested by alert and hard working APD patrol officers. Officers who responded to the original burglary were able to identify the responsible vehicle the night of the burglary and located the vehicle on February 16. They identified the driver as 34 year old Casey Beck and determined that he was responsible for multiple burglaries in the recent past. Beck was arrested and booked at the Martinez Detention Facility.
This update was prevented from reaching you because the Mayor ordered APD leadership from releasing it. We have been informed that this message has reached our department leadership through Chief Strategic Officer Rolando Bonilla. We have been told that Mr. Bonilla ordered the department’s Public Information Officer, Ashley Crandell, from releasing any further information regarding this incident.
The crime spree began Wednesday morning when the Hillcrest Taphouse in the City of Antioch was burglarized and said the Antioch Police response took nearly 4 hours to respond–it was later discovered Cocina Medina Mexican Restaurant was also hit by burglars. This prompted an open letter to the community from the Antioch Police Department.
The next day Muscle Maker Grill and Tailgaters Sports Bar and Grill, both had windows shattered and a suspect who made entry into the businesses and burglarized. This made more than 50 burglaries in the city of Antioch in 2023.
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