COVINA — Information continued to emerge Wednesday in the case of an alleged burglary ring that used police scanners and targeted victims including public officials in at least 20 residential burglaries in Covina, San Dimas and Glendora.
Only two of the five suspects arrested last week in connection with the investigation are suspected of being being connected to the break-ins, authorities clarified Wednesday.
Thomas Dandurand, 32, of Pomona, was charged Tuesday with five counts of residential burglary and one count of receiving stolen property, police said.
His common-law wife, Susana Chaidez, 28, of Pomona, was charged with possession of stolen property and has since been released on bail, according to police.
In police searches carried out during the investigation, investigators recovered allegedly stolen property, as well a list of what police described as potential victims. The list included names, addresses, home photographs and work information for for people including a judge and several public officials.
In addition to valuables, items that were not worth money, but “very sentimental,” Marquez said. Such items included non-precious jewelry and family heirlooms.
In one of the crimes, a couple in their 80s had their home ransacked after the husband suffered a heart attack and both went to a hospital in an ambulance, Marquez said.
Police said it was unclear if the burglars used their police scanner to determine the home had been left vacant due to the medical emergency.
Among the items stolen were a prized silverware set that had belonged to the woman’s grandmother, and a Luger pistol the elderly man had taken as a war trophy in Germany during World War II, officials said.
The silverware set was recovered following the arrests of Thomas Dandurand and Chaidez, Marquez added.
During the arrests, authorities recovered a list of what they are calling potential victims. The list, found in a suspect’s home, includes names, addresses, pictures of houses and employment information for potential victims, including the information of a judge and multiple public officials.
Three other suspects were arrested during the investigation, but have not been linked to the burglaries, Sgt. Ray Marquez said.
Henry Arce, 21, of Baldwin Park was arrested on suspicion of possession of stolen property, however his attorney, Justin Rodriguez, as well as Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons said Wednesday the charge was reduced to a misdemeanor count of driving without a valid license.
Thomas Arce, 42, of Baldwin Park, was arrested on suspicion of possession of methamphetamine.
Phillip Gordon Dandurand, 18, of Pomona was initially arrested on suspicion of assisting in the burglaries, however the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office declined to file charges against him due to insufficient evidence, police said.
Police are continuing to seek another suspect, 27-year-old Anthony Ray Arce of Baldwin Park, on suspicion of assisting Thomas Dandurand and Susana Chaidez in the break-ins, Marquez said.

AZUSA — Azusa police are seeking the public’s help to return a set of stolen wedding albums to the couple it belongs to.
The two photo albums were among stolen property recovered in September of 2010 as part of a burglary investigation, Azusa police Evidence Custodian Patrick Doyle.
They were recovered, along with many other stolen items, from a storage unit in an unincorporated county area near Azusa, officials said. A Covina woman and an Azusa man have since been convicted in connection with the thefts.
“After a year of searching, we’ve exhausted all other avenues. Now we’re asking the public’s help to identify the victims so we can return their wedding photos,” Doyle said.
Police have sent out notices to other agencies and tried to identify the location where the pictures were taken with no success.
Officials have released photos from the album in hopes that someone will recognize the couple and help reunite them with their wedding albums.
Police arrested Jennifer Jennings, 21, of Covina and Raymundo Nares, 36, of Azusa Sept. 17, 2010 as they were driving away from a storage facility along Azusa Avenue, Doyle said.
After finding stolen property in their car, police searched their storage unit and found it was also full of items taken in home burglaries throughout the San Gabriel Valley. Much of that property had been returned to its rightful owners, however the wedding albums remain unclaimed.
Jennings pleaded guilty to first-degree burglary and possession of drugs late last year and received three years of probation, as well as a suspended prison sentence.
Nares pleaded no contest to two counts of receiving stolen property in April and was sentenced to three years in state prison.
Anyone who recognize the couple pictured in the wedding album is asked to contact Azusa police evidence custodians Patrick Doyle or Steven Rodriguez at 626-812-3200.

*PHOTO courtesy of the Azusa Police Department

GLENDORA — Someone stole more than 50 used car batteries from a Wal-Mart store earlier this week, police said.
The crime took place sometime between 7:45 a.m. Tuesday and 7:45 a.m. Wednesday, Glendora police Lt. Rob Lamborghini said.
Workers at the store, 1950 Auto Center Drive, noticed a metal cage that houses used car batteries for recycling had been broken into, and a pallet containing 50 to 60 batteries — valued at about $9 each — had been taken.

ALHAMBRA — Police arrested two men Friday on suspicion of breaking into a house dressed as employees of a cable television company, officials said.
Perre Michael Chang, 30, of Laguna Nigel and Daniel Wardming Quon, 26, of Pasadena were booked on suspicion of burglary and being held in lieu of $50,000 bail, Alhambra police Lt. Jennifer Wiese said.
A resident of the 2000 block of Stoneman Avenue called police just before 4 p.m. to report a possible break-in at a neighboring home, the lieutenant said.
“Officers arrived and immediately apprehended two subjects fleeing from the scene,” she said.
Both suspects, later identified as Chang and Quon, were wearing Time Warner uniform shirts, Wiese added.
Police searched the neighborhood but found no additional suspects.