Suspected Sonoma burglar accidentally turns himself in

Jail employee recognized man from flier|

A suspect in a recent burglary at Bonneau’s 76 service station was arrested after he walked into the county jail to visit another inmate.

Shortly after 7 a.m. on Nov. 22, a customer at Bonneau’s 76 on Arnold Drive and Grove Street saw someone in the back of the building loading a welder into a U-Haul truck. But the man and the truck were gone when an employee went to check.

The station has video cameras, so deputies not only got a shot of the plate on the truck, they got a shot of the burglary suspect.

A sheriff’s spokesperson said the truck was rented to somebody with a Sebastopol address who was no longer at that address. Deputies put together a photo lineup for the witness and the witness picked out the suspect.

The deputies then printed up a flier with the man’s picture and passed it out to deputies and law enforcement personnel around the county.

The suspect later walked into the jail to visit another inmate, and an alert corrections officer recognized the visitor as the man on the flier.

Deputies arrested Michael W. Mosiurchak, 35, of Windsor, on charges of felony burglary, felony possession of stolen property, felony conspiracy to commit a crime, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.

When the deputies recovered the truck, they reportedly found a large variety of stolen goods from commercial and construction site burglaries mostly in the Rohnert Park area.

Authorities are looking for an unnamed female accomplice they suspect aided Mosiurchak in the burglaries.

Email Bill at bill.hoban@sonomanews.com.

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