5 Arrested On Suspicion Of Breaking Into Occupied Big Sur Home

BIG SUR, CA — Five people were arrested after a house was burglarized in Big Sur, the Monterey County Sheriff's Office said Sunday.

Early Saturday morning at 5:21 a.m., a 911 call came in reporting a burglary in the 47000 block of Pfeiffer Ridge Road in Big Sur.

The caller had hidden in his bathroom to make the call and believed that at least two people had broken into his home. According to the Sheriff's Office, the caller appeared to be having a medical emergency during the 911 call and the dispatcher ordered an ambulance along with law enforcement response.

Deputies rushed to area and were told that a responding firefighter saw a vehicle that appeared to have gotten stuck in a ditch along Pfeiffer Ridge Road near the home that was burglarized. Multiple people were standing by the car and the Sheriff's Office detained five individuals on suspicion of burglary; an investigation allegedly tied them to the break-in.

Arrested were three men from Seaside: Monte Lee Laws, 26, Cooper Ervin Regier, 18, and Kennth Bucud, 20. Also arrested were Fresno resident Jeremiah John Gutierrez, 22, and Monterey resident Michael Jahiem Brison, 20, who was taken to the hospital for what the Sheriff's Office described as a medical emergency. Brison was treated and released back into the custody of law enforcement.
All five were booked into jail on suspicion of burglary, felony vandalism and conspiracy to commit a crime.

The resident of the home who was treated at the scene and refused medical transport, the Sheriff's Office said.

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