El Dorado County (Dec 11 2023) – This question seems to need clarification from our El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office. As an attempted burglary victim of the “Blackstone Burglar” in the recent El Dorado Hills burglaries and the suspect arrested after seven incidents with community policing — the fact no charges were filed by the DA’s Office is evidence that my family and all of us in El Dorado County are on our own if a burglary takes place in our county even with a parolee committing the crime. So, I am seeking answers. I want to know why?!
What I seek now as a crime victim turned attorney advocate from the El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson’s office are answers as to what constitutes sufficient evidence?
I received a canned email Nov. 29 from Assistant DA Suder stating “insufficient evidence” is the reason they’re not able to charge this parolee with burglary or any crime. This is not acceptable as the answer.
EDSO worked their tail off in this series of burglaries, they got the perp and put him in “silver bracelets”, and now here we go again the perpetrator, a parolee no less, is out free from custody because the DA says insufficient evidence. Why?
I refuse to be silent and want to bring forth this issue to the public to ensure my fellow neighbors in the county I love and call home have information to ponder as critical thinkers.
My grievance now is with the DA’s Office.
DA Pierson: Why not advise us all as the law-abiding taxpayer citizens, your constituents in this county, as the charging authority what you need from us or what actions we can take to help your office have the evidence you need in order to charge perpetrators like this with burglary?
In the seven incidents in Blackstone, there is eye-witness testimony, camera evidence and completion of the crime. Under California Penal Code Section 459, burglary is the act of entering a structure (residential, commercial or any other type of property) with the intent to commit grand larceny, petit larceny or any other felony.
Further, if the answer is that there is never enough evidence for a burglary charge even for one on parole like this perpetrator, then say that and do so now. We as your constituents in this county deserve to know the truth. Many of us here in El Dorado County have the grit to handle the truth, including me, one of the victims. I promise I don’t “clutch my pearls.” I will find a way to help protect myself as always and help my family and neighbors do the same.
ALEXIS MOORE, El Dorado Hills
