Man Arrested for Stealing Purse and Trying to Cash Check

A probationer was behind bars Fiday for allegedly stealing a woman's purse from her car in Fallbrook and trying to cash one of her personal checks.

Chad Taylor Dudley, 37, was arrested Thursday at his home in the 1200 block of Westport Road in San Marcos, San Diego county sheriff's Sgt. Joe Montion said.

Arresting deputies found a personal check from the Nov. 18 car burglary, someone else's credit card and drug paraphernalia in Dudley's home, according to Montion.

The credit card had been reported stolen Nov. 22 by a woman who said her purse was taken in Ramona. Montion said Dudley was identified as a suspect in the earlier burglary when he went to a check-cashing business in Escondido hours later and tried to cash a personal check in someone else's name.

Dudley was booked into the Vista jail on suspicion of felony burglary, felony possession of stolen property and misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia. Bail was set at $25,000. Dudley was on probation for unspecified crimes at the time of his arrest, Montion said.

—City News Service report.