POLICE have arrested Manuel A. Ada, 26, and Charley Joenel Enriquez, 18, who are accused of breaking and entering, and taking an iPhone inside The Shack in Oleai in the early morning of Feb. 13.
The defendants were each charged with burglary, theft, and conspiracy.
Ada and Enriquez appeared before Superior Court Associate Judge Joseph N. Camacho for a bail hearing on Monday.
The judge imposed $5,000 cash bail on each of the defendants and remanded them to the custody of the Department of Corrections after the hearing.
Attorney Joe McDoulett was appointed by the court to represent Ada while Enriquez was represented by Assistant Public Defender Karie Comstock. Assistant Attorney General Steven Kessel appeared for the government.
The defendants were ordered to return to court on Feb. 23 at 10 a.m. for a preliminary hearing, and on March 7 at 9 a.m. for an arraignment.
According to the complaint, police received a call on Feb. 13 at around 4:38 a.m. regarding a burglary and theft incident at The Shack in Oleai.
The Shack supervisor told police that he received notification from the surveillance camera inside the establishment that someone was in the restaurant.
The supervisor said they had not been keeping cash in the restaurant since their last break-in, but an iPhone was missing, he said.
Police at the scene saw one of the restaurant’s windows shattered with glass on the patio and the ground. An officer also observed blood stains on the floor and on the window frame that had a large piece of glass still attached.
The officer likewise observed two medium-size rocks that were on the ground and table inside the establishment.
Other police officers on patrol pulled over a vehicle last seen in the area.
A patrol officer told the driver that a few minutes ago, The Shack was broken into, and the driver’s vehicle was the only one seen leaving the vicinity of the crime scene.
The passengers of the vehicle were Ada and Enriquez.
An officer asked whether any of them had any injuries.
The driver then told Ada and Enriquez to tell the truth and to get out of the vehicle.
When the two passengers got out of the vehicle, an officer saw that Enriquez’s hands were bleeding and that he was trying to conceal it.
The driver told the police that he had no knowledge of what the two did. He said he was stopped by Ada and Enriquez, and they asked him to give them a ride to Chalan Kanoa.
While the officers were questioning Ada and Enriquez, The Shack’s supervisor called the iPhone that was missing. One of the officers then heard a phone ringing — the sound was coming from Ada’s pocket.
In a freely given statement to the police, Enriquez admitted breaking into The Shack by throwing a rock into the window, “but the window did not shatter so [Enriquez] started to pull the glass with both his hands causing cuts.” He said he entered the restaurant and started to search in a drawer that was next to a computer. He didn’t find any cash but found five envelopes and an iPhone. Enriquez then met with Ada — who was the lookout — outside a store that was across from The Shack.
Ada opened the envelopes and told Enriquez that they contained only receipts and gift certificates.
The two then walked toward the San Jose Mobil gas station where they met with Ada’s uncle. They asked him to give them a ride to Chalan Kanoa. They were later pulled over by the police.
