GPS Tracker Leads Authorities To Confessed Bandit

OF THE GROPING CASE INVOLVING STUDENTS GET THE DISTRICT DESCRIBES IT AS A PERSONNEL MATTER.

TO JEFFERSON COUNTY NOW WHERE A MAN IS A SING A LONG PRISON SENTENCE AFTER RIPPING OFF DOZENS OF BUSINESSES IN LAKEWOOD.

ARTHUR LOPEZ FORGOT THAT HE WAS WEARING HIS ANKLE MONITOR DURING THE BURGLARIES.

HE CONFESSED AFTER DETECTIVES TOLD HIM THAT THEY HAD FOLLOWED HIS EVERY MOVE.

TOM MUSTIN IS LIVE IN LAKEWOOD TONIGHT INSIDE JOHNNY'S NEW YORK PIZZA, ONE OF THE PLACE THAT LOPEZ TARGETED.

Reporter: WE ARE NOT DEALING WITH THE SHARPEST CRIMINAL.

LOPEZ USED A CROWBAR TO BREAK OPEN THE DOOR.

HE THEN WALKED ACROSS TO THE CASH REGISTER AND STOLE MONEY.

THE ONLY PROBLEM WAS, HE WAS WEARING AN ANKLE BRACELET WHICH WAS BROADCASTING HIS LOCATION.

BRANDON STEWART HAS LITTLE SYMPATHY FOR CONFESSED BURGLAR ARTHUR LOPEZ.

WE ARE VERY GLAD THEY CAUGHT HIM.

Reporter: STEWART MANAGES JOHNNY'S NEW YORK PIZZA IN LAKEWOOD, ONE OF 24 PLACES TARGETED BY LOPEZ.

WE CAME IN AND OF THE FRONT DOOR WAS BROKEN OFF.

Reporter: LOPEZ WERE SKI GOGGLES DURING THE CRIMES THE 24-YEAR-OLD WAS CAUGHT AFTER DETECTIVES SAW SOMETHING ON VIDEO.

HE NOTICED IN SOME OF THE SURVEILLANCE VIDEO THAT THE BURGLAR HAD GOGGLES ON BUT HE COULD SEE EYEGLASSES UNDERNEATH THE GOGGLES.

Reporter: THE GLASSES LED TO LOPEZ GETTING IDENTIFIED.

EVEN MORE DAMAGING WAS HE HAD BEEN WEARING A TRACKING DEVICE.

HE GOT CAUGHT VIA HIS GPS ANKLE MONITOR FROM PREVIOUS TROUBLE HE HAD BEEN IN.

Reporter: DETECTIVES TRACED HIS STEPS TO RESTAURANTS, LIQUOR STORES AND LAUNDROMATS IN THE LAKEWOOD AREA.

LOPEZ ADMITTED TO SOME OF THE CRIMES BUT TOLD DETECTIVES HE COULD NOT REMEMBER SPECIFIC PLACES HE HAD BROKEN INTO AND WITH WHO.

IF HIS GPS MONITOR PUT HIM NEAR THE CRIME SCENE, HE WOULD CLAIM RESPONSIBILITY.

IT IS UNBELIEVABLE THAT SOMEONE COULD NOT THINK IT THROUGH.

Reporter: LOPEZ FACES UP TO SIX YEARS FOR EACH BURGLARY CHARGE.

STEWART SAYS ALL HE ASKS IS THAT THE PUNISHMENT FIT THE CRIME.

20 YEARS, WHATEVER.

A GOOD, LONG TIME TO SIT IN THERE AND THINK ABOUT IT.

Reporter: THE OWNER OF JOHNNY'S PIZZA SAYS HE IS A FORGIVING GUY AND WOULD LIKE TO OFFER LOPEZ A JOB WHEN HE GETS OUT OF JAIL.

LOPEZ HAS NOT IDENTIFIED ANY OF.

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