CALIFORNIA STOLEN COMPUTERS RECOVEREDRed Bluff Daily News Online - NewsSuspects arraigned in county burglaries

By REBECCA WOLF-DN Staff Writer

RED BLUFF Two people arrested after authorities recovered hundreds of pieces of stolen property in September were arraigned this week on charges of receiving stolen property.

Red Bluff residents Connie Elaine Whitson, 50, and Steven Ray Palmer, 40, have been charged with 24 counts each and were told to return to court on June 27 after their attorney, Ronald McIver, asked for a two-week continuance for an informal discovery request.

The two have pleaded not guilty and in May waived their preliminary hearings.

Whitson and Palmer were arrested after a series of raids on several locations that yielded several hundred pieces of stolen property. The property included a large variety of hand tools, power tools, computer and electronic equipment, jewelry, lawn and garden equipment and other items.

The property is believed to have come from residential and commercial burglaries and thefts, authorities have said.

Officers from the Red Bluff Police Department and the Tehama County Sheriff's Department began a complex investigation in August that led to searches at several Red Bluff locations.

The RBPD and the sheriff's department worked together on the case because there were victims in both jurisdictions.