An errant golf shot led to the latest discovery of loot from a theft ring that apparently dumped its booty into the murky shallows of a Kern County lake.
A suspect who may have ties to the thefts was arraigned on a separate charge of receiving stolen property.
Divers recovered a trove of pilfered goods July 20 from the floor of Four Island Lake in Bear Valley Springs, an unincorporated community west of Tehachapi.
The two dozen items included iPhones, iPods, GPS devices, a flat-screen television and power tools, such as sanders and chain saws. Also recovered was a 12-gauge shotgun.
While some items were in bags, the bags were not water tight.
Investigators suspect thieves were not planning a later salvage operation, but rather disposing of evidence, possibly out of fear investigators might be closing in.
For burglarized residents, investigators had good news and bad, said Sgt. David Watts of the Bear Valley Police Department: “The bad news is I don’t think it’s going to work anymore.”
“The only thing that would come in on that TV is Nemo,” and only if Nemo “swam in,” said Watts referring to the animated fish character in the film “Finding Nemo.”
The divers were supplied by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, whose divers frequently have the grim task of recovering human remains from oceans, lakes and rivers.
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