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Joshua Lincoln Nelson, a Daly City man who pleaded no contest to a burglary charge in connection with a dramatic 2015 break-in at Mike’s Camera on Santa Cruz Avenue in Menlo Park, was sentenced Monday (May 23) to 16 months in prison.
He will serve his sentence consecutively with a six-year sentence he is already serving from a Santa Clara County case, prosecutors said.
Mr. Nelson, 47, remains in jail on a bail of $125,000, prosecutors said.
The incident at the camera shop began around 5 a.m. Sunday, March 22, 2015, when a witness called police to report that a pickup truck backed into a glass door at the rear of shop at 715 Santa Cruz Ave.
Police were on the scene 40 seconds later and an officer saw a man climbing over a broken security gate and trying to enter the store, prosecutors said. The man tried to run off, but stopped when threatened with a Taser, prosecutors said. He was captured and arrested.
Police found bolt cutters near the door. Police searched for a female accomplice, said to be inside the store, but did not find her.
Damages to the store included the door, a security fence and a planter, losses that added up to about $9,000, prosecutors said. Nothing was taken from the store, but the truck used in the incident had been stolen from ZipCar in San Francisco, prosecutors said.
By Dave Boyce
By Dave Boyce
By Dave Boyce