Crime & Safety
Police Charge Couple in String of Vehicle Thefts
The following information was supplied by the Beverly Hills Police Department. Arrests do not indicate a conviction.
Beverly Hills police arrested a man and a woman Nov. 14 after undercover surveillance and detectives connected them to 30 unlocked vehicle thefts.
Steven Armstrong, 23, of Mission Hills, and Sophie Smaniotto, 29, an Australian national, were taken into custody at 7 p.m. Nov. 14 and charged with burglary and receiving stolen property.
Investigators identified the two as persons of interest into a string of thefts from unlocked vehicles, and police executed search warrants at a hotel in the 400 block of North Crescent Drive and a motel in the 10000 block of Santa Monica Boulevard.
More than 100 items of evidence were recovered and 30 crimes uncovered, police said.
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