He faces charges of burglary, receiving stolen property, and peeping and prowling. Galvan was released from jail Saturday after posting bail of $200,000. The police told the LA Times that the panties were in the garage, while the electronics were piled up in the house.īeyond panties and bras, police allege that Galvan stole framed photos of women and jewelry from the homes and apartments he’s suspected of hitting.Ĭlean and snatched from drawers, dirty ones fished out of laundry baskets, the occasional male roommate’s undergarments mixed in, it didn’t matter: his alleged panty raids did not discriminate. The FPD got a search warrant and searched Galvan’s home on Monday, finding what they said was “a garage-full” of stolen items belonging to 24 victims. Victims were home in some of the break-ins.
They also think that he is responsible for a similar number of burglaries near Chapman University in Orange, California, earlier this year.
Police suspect that he’s responsible for six burglaries at four Los Angeles locations dating back to October. Galvan, a 44-year-old Los Angeles man, was arrested last week, the Fullerton Police Department (FPD) said on Monday. You know, the same location data used in a project entitled I Know Where Your Cat Lives, made possible by all those location-revealing cat pictures we love to post. In fact, the targets were college-aged female victims, and police believe that Galvan hunted them down by using the location data from photos posted on Instagram and other social media sites to pinpoint where they lived. There was, apparently, a sexual component to the burglaries, police said.
Asked why he did it, suspected burglar Arturo Galvan reportedly told police:Ĭomputers, iPads, TVs: those valuable items make burglary sense.
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