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SALT LAKE CITY — A woman charged with burglarizing a Salt Lake home in October was arrested Tuesday.
Now, police agencies from at least three counties want to question the woman and her husband about a rash of home and vehicle burglaries that have been happening over the past couple of months.
Jessica Solis, 34, was arrested at 8:15 a.m. and officers also seized ID cards, forged credit cards, electronics and jewelry. Salt Lake police detective Cody Lougy said she is a suspected in burglaries from Orem to Ogden and Park City, including several in Salt Lake City.
"Sounds like Jessica would go into a residential area and start knocking on doors and seeing if people were home. If they weren't home, she would break in," he said.
Solis' husband, Jose Correa Rodriguez, 36, was arrested Sunday and booked into the Davis County Jail for investigation of burglary, theft, drug possession and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was also being held on an immigration detainer, according to jail records.
Rodriguez would wait in a getaway vehicle while Solis committed the burglaries, according to Lougy.
On Sunday, an off-duty Bountiful police officer spotted a suspicious vehicle in the area of 300 North and 200 East and called officers who were on duty, said Bountiful Police Sgt. Troy Killian. Not long after, a resident in the same area called to report a burglary.
Officers spotted Rodriguez driving around, apparently waiting for his wife, and pulled him over. Inside the car, investigators found items that had been stolen recently out of Washington Terrace as well as property from Orem, Killian said. A meth pipe was also found in the car, he said.
While talking to detectives, Rodriguez "implicated his wife in the burglaries," Killian said. Salt Lake police were contacted and went to her house on Sunday. They didn't find her, but were tipped off Monday that she was back in the area.
In October, Solis was charged in 3rd District Court with burglary and drug possession, second-degree felonies; possession of a weapon by a restricted person, a class A misdemeanor; possession of burglary tools, a class B misdemeanor; and giving false information to a police officer, a class C misdemeanor.
In that case, a Salt Lake County couple came home to find their screen door cut open and a woman walking out of their bedroom with a bag of clothes, according to charging documents. Police said they caught Solis as she was trying to climb a fence in the backyard.
Solis was in possession of methamphetamine, a knife, a chisel and a saw, the charges state. A warrant was issued for her in November after she failed to appear in court.
In 2012, she was convicted of misdemeanor theft by deception in Salt Lake Justice Court. In 2011, Solis was convicted of illegally attempting to use a bank card and theft. She was given probation but then violated the terms of her probation and was ordered to serve 10 days in jail, according to court records.
In 2009, Solis was convicted of giving false information to a police officer and retail theft.
