Overview
- A routine break-in on June 20 in Cupertino led to the theft of $18,000 in jewelry and electronics and two Porsches.
- Surveillance footage and vehicle tracking tied the 2019 Cayenne and 2024 Taycan to multiple Bay Area crimes, including a Santa Clara police pursuit.
- On July 17, the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office and regional task forces arrested Emillano Ontiveros, Brandi French and Kevin Monge at the Hayes Mansion Hotel.
- Detectives seized 500 pieces of stolen mail, dozens of counterfeit and genuine IDs, credit cards, passports, a Porsche key fob and 24 grams of suspected methamphetamine from the suspects’ room.
- Monge, Ontiveros and French face charges ranging from burglary and identity theft to check fraud and drug possession, and authorities have returned both Porsches and hundreds of personal documents to victims.