P. v. Vantuinen CA2/3
This case involves a conspiracy on the part of defendants and appellants Duane A. Vantuinen, Randall Joseph Whitmore, and Edwin Lynn Valentine—working together with Joshua Box, Lorraine Vasquez, Cory Mulligan, Brian Duran and Margaret High—to burglarize the homes of Los Angeles and San Bernardino County newspaper subscribers who requested temporary vacation stops of newspaper delivery. Most of the victims were customers of the Los Angeles Times, but some subscribed to other papers such as the Inland Valley Bulletin.
The evidence demonstrated that Vantuinen, while working as a machine repairman for various newspaper distributors, stole vacation stop lists and passed them along to his co-conspirators who carried out the burglaries. Using these lists, Box and Whitmore were able to commit burglaries at homes they knew would be temporarily unoccupied. The other co-conspirators apparently helped store and dispose of burglarized items. Valentine and Vantuinen also helped dispose of
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