Watsonville Police arrest pair of suspects attempting to rob a store

WATSONVILLE, CALIF. (KION-TV)- Watsonville Police arrested a pair of suspects who tried stealing goods from a second-hand store.

On Wednesday, officers responded to a call of a burglary happening on the 500 block of Main Street. The suspects, 26-year-old Robert Lee Buckman and 32-year-old Jose Alfredo Vallejo, tried leaving through the back door they forced open before officers could catch them, but officers quickly surrounded the store and arrested them.

The men caused more than $1,000 in damages to the store. Buckman later confessed to officers that he had also stolen from the same store earlier that day.

Buckman and Vallejo were taken to the Santa Cruz County Jail where they're facing charges of burglary and conspiracy.