"They're ID thieves. They rip off the mail to get hopefully checks so they can produce" phoney checks, sheriff's deputy Nick Baldrige said.
He estimated there are at least 30 victims to the couple's three-county crime spree.
The investigation started in February when Baldrige went to a Scotts Valley home because a man thought his roommate, 25-year-old Scott Alan Jackson, had stolen from him.
Baldrige said he searched the bedroom Jackson shared with his girlfriend, who is on parole, and found a flash drive that had been reported stolen from the Boulder Creek Country Club earlier in the month. The deputy also reported finding a trash bag of mail stolen from Carmel Valley in the backyard and a red pickup parked in front that allegedly had been involved in a hit-and-run in front of the county club the night the business was burglarized.
From that evidence, Judge Jeff Almquist issued a warrant for Jackson.
But before local deputies could arrest Jackson, he was picked up in Sunnyvale for allegedly passing a bad check at a business there, according to the Sheriff's Office.
His girlfriend, Brandy Fellows, was waiting for him but fled in her vehicle. She led Santa Clara County Sheriff's deputies on a chase
all the way to San Francisco, where she eventually was stopped and arrested. Fellows, 27, is facing charges in San Francisco County Superior Court, Baldrige said.
Jackson was arraigned in Santa Clara County Superior Court on the bad check charge March 1. Baldrige was there to arrest him for the Santa Cruz County burglary warrant. When Jackson was taken into custody, Baldrige said he had two counterfeit $20 bills, a counterfeit $100 bill, a California driver's license that had been reported stolen in Santa Cruz and a check from a Santa Cruz business made out to the person listed on the driver's license. santacruzsentinel
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