Overview

• Deputies used surveillance, cell-tower records and license-plate readers to link Jason Brauner to burglaries at Eisenhower Health, Hoag and Loma Linda hospitals before his Aug. 6 arrest
• Investigators recovered about $300,000 in stolen surgical tools and skin grafts along with an additional $10,000–$25,000 in medical supplies at his San Jacinto home
• Brauner pleaded not guilty to burglary, grand theft and receiving stolen property and is held at the John Benoit Detention Center on $100,000 bail following flight-risk concerns
• An affidavit alleges he exploited past ties as a contractor employee to don scrubs, breach secure operating areas and peddle stolen goods online
• Tissue-bank experts say theft of skin grafts is exceptionally rare and federal law bars any legitimate market for stolen human tissue