Pacheco Man Faces Preliminary Hearing For Moraga Hot Prowl Burglaries

A 24-year-old Pacheco man arrested after a string of thefts from occupied homes near Campolindo High School in Moraga has had his preliminary hearing set for June 15, according to Moraga police.

Joran Taylor Furst, 24, a parolee and aspiring rapper from Pacheco, was arrested April 1, just hours after a felony warrant charging three counts of first degree burglary, one count of petty theft with prior convictions and one count of possessing stolen property was issued for him by Moraga police. Bail on the warrant was set at $400,000.

Furst was ultimately arrested in Pittsburg after an unrelated contact by detectives from the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office.

In January 2011, three homes were entered and additional thefts from vehicles discovered in a neighborhood across from . Moraga police located a parked vehicle on Natalie Drive that contained stolen property and, after an area search, additional loot was found on a nearby hillside.

Moraga police learned that the suspect entered three homes while the residents were asleep and took their property. The parked car, as it turned out, was registered to Furst, who initially told police that it had been stolen.