Cypress : 4 Arrested in Thefts at Electronics Warehouse

Four men have been arrested as suspects in the theft of thousands of dollars of stereo and video equipment from an electronics warehouse during the last few months, police said Wednesday.

John Lesley Warr, Chad James Cold, Frederick Emerson Chapman II and Christopher Gregory Griffin, all 18 and of Long Beach, were arrested late Tuesday night and booked on suspicion of burglary and criminal conspiracy, Sgt. Ray Peterson said.

Police watched the Mitsubishi electronics warehouse on Plaza Drive--where Warr worked as a security guard--throughout the afternoon, and saw men loading items onto a pickup truck after the warehouse had closed. They stopped the truck when it left the facility shortly after 10 p.m. and arrested Cold, Chapman and Griffin.

Thirty-three videocassette recorders and several other electronics items, worth about $20,000, were in the back of the pickup, Peterson said. Warr was arrested at the warehouse. Three of the men were released on $10,000 bail Wednesday, but Griffin remained in custody, Peterson said, adding that there have been a series of thefts at the warehouse over the last few months.