On Wednesday, July 27, 2011, Michael McDaniel was arrested for burglary and his girlfriend Alicia Moore was arrested for being an accessory the following day. Lake County Jail photos.

CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. – A local man has been arrested in connection with a series of Clearlake Oaks burglaries that occurred over the past two months, with his girlfriend also being arrested as an accessory after warning him that law enforcement was looking for him.

Michael Christopher McDaniel, 25, was arrested on Wednesday and 24-year-old Alicia Michelle Moore on Thursday, according to Capt. James Bauman of the Lake County Sheriff's Office.

Bauman said the arrests resulted from an extensive investigation and coordinated effort between sheriff’s deputies, Major Crimes Unit detectives and burglary victims from the Clearlake Oaks area.

Along with the arrests, nearly $2,000 worth of stolen property was recovered, Bauman said.

In late June and early July, several residential burglaries in the Clearlake Oaks area were reported to the sheriff’s office. Bauman said an estimated $3,500 worth of jewelry, coins, stamp collections, clothing, artwork and home electronics were reportedly stolen as a result of those burglaries.

On July 5, sheriff’s deputies were alerted by one of the burglary victims that some of the property stolen from their home had been located in a secondhand store in the Big Oaks Plaza in Clearlake Oaks, Bauman said.

He said some of that victim’s stolen property ultimately was recovered from the store and due largely to the cooperation of the store owner, the person responsible for selling the stolen items to the store was identified the following day as McDaniel.

Further investigation by detectives with the Sheriff’s Major Crimes Unit over the next two weeks led to the identification and recovery of additional stolen property from another one of the burglaries at another secondhand store in Clearlake Oaks, Bauman said. On July 22, detectives secured an arrest warrant for McDaniel and a search warrant for McDaniel’s Clearlake Oaks home.

On July 27, sheriff’s detectives served the search warrant at McDaniel’s home on Shoreview Drive. Bauman said detectives learned from Moore, McDaniel’s girlfriend, that McDaniel had moved out of the home two days prior. However, detectives also learned that some of the property stolen in the burglaries had been seen at the home prior to McDaniel leaving.

Bauman said a relative, who became aware that McDaniel was wanted, coordinated McDaniel’s surrender to sheriff’s detectives later that day and he was arrested without incident.

McDaniel was transported to the Lake County Hill Road Correctional Facility and booked for first degree burglary. He remained in jail on Thursday with bail set at $30,000, Bauman said.

During McDaniel’s arrest, detectives learned that his girlfriend, Moore, had alerted him that he was being sought and to “run,” shortly after detectives left his home that day. Bauman said Moore was arrested on Thursday for felony accessory and booked at the Hill Road Correctional Facility as well.

Jail records showed that Moore remained in the jail on Thursday with bail set at $10,000.

Bauman said sheriff’s detectives have since located additional stolen property at the home of one of

McDaniel’s relatives.

To date, nearly $2,000.00 in stolen property has been recovered and the investigation continues, he said.

Anyone with information on any other burglaries in the area or McDaniel’s activities is encouraged to contact the Sheriff’s Major Crimes Unit at 707-262-4200.

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