A 45-year-old man is behind bars on no bail status on charges of felony grand theft, car theft and non-residential burglary after he was found Friday morning with one laptop and two iPads marked as property of Woodside Elementary School, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Justin Robert Huff pleaded no contest to three felony charges as well as misdemeanor giving false identification and vandalism of the Little Store restaurant in Woodside when he appeared in court Monday. He is next expected to appear in court July 12 for preliminary hearing, according to prosecutors.
Huff was allegedly found June 28 by San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies about a mile away from the school, which they believed had been broken into earlier in the day, according to prosecutors.
At around 6 a.m., an alarm was set off at the school, and deputies arriving to the scene allegedly found the doors of the computer lab open and one of the windows to the lab smashed. Several laptops and a projector were allegedly strewn on the ground, and a stolen truck was parked in the back parking lot of the school, according to prosecutors.
Medication and a San Francisco County Jail wristband with Huff’s name were allegedly found inside the vehicle, and Huff was allegedly found during a search conducted by deputies with one laptop computer and two iPad tablets, valued at some $3,000, according to prosecutors.
Huff allegedly told the deputies his name was Justin Lynch, and the truck was reported stolen from a Millbrae restaurant, according to prosecutors.
Huff is also being held responsible for an attempted break-in at the Little Store restaurant in Woodside, where a window was smashed but Huff was allegedly not able to enter, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office and prosecutors.
Huff was sentenced to three years probation and 90 days in county jail after he pleaded no contest to felony grand theft Jan. 17 for a Jan. 10 crime in Burlingame. On April 24, he allegedly admitted a probation violation and was sentenced to additional time in jail, which was completed before he was arrested Friday, according to prosecutors.
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