Same Scott Russo famous for robbing the store he was hired to manage?
Monterey County Detectives say they recovered a ‘trove’ of property after a Pebble Beach burglary. Detectives with the Property Crimes Unit followed up on a home burglary there. They located a house on the 1100 block of W. Alisal Street in Salinas. After serving a warrant there, investigators say they found the stolen property.
Detectives arrested 49-year-old Scott Russo, of Monterey County in Del Rey Oaks.
Living it the way he chose to.
Scott Russo in 2005, arrested for robbing the Kragen Auto Parts store he managed
Scott Russo in 2020
On November 28, 2020 at approximately 6:57 p.m., Monterey Police Officers were dispatched to Mandeville Court on a report of a burglary in progress at a closed business. The person reporting the incident observed the suspect inside the business removing items before leaving in a pickup truck. Responding officers located the truck on Highway 68 and stopped it.
The driver of the truck was identified as Scott Russo, 47 years-old of Monterey. Russo was found to be on Post Release Community Supervision (PRCS) for a previous conviction of burglary and had an outstanding felony arrest warrant for burglary. Russo was arrested and in possession of burglary tools and a small amount of cocaine. Officers searched the truck and located stolen property that
had been taken from the business on Mandeville Court.
A trail of auto parts led Monterey police to a young woman and man pushing a cart filled with stolen merchandise early Wednesday morning.
It turned out that the man pushing the cart and loading the items into a van worked as a Kragen Auto Parts manager during the day.
Monterey police arrested Scott Russo, 27, and Elisabeth Roberts, 24, for allegedly burglarizing the Kragen Auto Parts store at 400 Lighthouse Ave.
As they left the store, Russo and Roberts dropped items, leaving a trail that helped police find them, police said.
Scott Russo