22-year-old Aiden Cornish and 20-year-old Trent Kennedy were arrested by Scottsdale Police detectives on July 23 for burglarizing three unoccupied homes in Scottsdale between July 14 and July 22 and two burglaries in Paradise Valley on June 13 and June 15.
The burglaries involved the loss of about $100,000 in high-end kitchen appliances. In one instance, the suspects used proceeds from selling the appliances to rent a Lamborghini for three days.
Scottsdale detectives began investigating two residential burglaries that occurred overnight between July 13 and July 14 near Dynamite Boulevard and Alma school Road. While looking for leads on the suspect, they recalled information shared by Paradise Valley Police detectives, who were investigating two similar burglaries in their city.
Paradise Valley Police were already investigating two burglaries of high-end appliances between June 13 and June 16. They shared that information with Scottsdale Police to see if the detectives were working similar cases. Paradise Valley Police also had neighborhood video footage showing a possible suspect vehicle from one of their cases. The suspect vehicle description was caught on a photo radar camera on June 15 driving towards one of the Paradise Valley victims’ homes.
The license plate captured by the photo radar camera came back to a black GMC truck belonging to Aiden Cornish. The camera images also caught someone in the vehicles from a passenger seat of the truck with Cornish. Through some other investigative means the front passenger was ultimately identified as Trent Kennedy. The truck and trailer were observed later that morning, leaving Paradise Valley loaded with appliances and chairs, which were reported stolen from one of the burglaries.
Cornish and Kennedy were also going to the fifth burglary which occurred around 10 PM on July 22 at home near Shea Boulevard and 131st St. traffic light cameras caught to GMC and trailer leaving the area of the burglary was still on appliances on the trailer Suspect then drove to a home in Tempe that belong to Cornish with the stolen property
On July 23 around 9:00 a.m., Scottsdale Police detectives observed Cornish driving the truck, trailer, and stolen property to a storage facility in Phoenix. Once there, detectives pulled the truck over and arrested Cornish without incident. Kennedy was later located and arrested by detectives around 3:00 p.m..
During his interview with detectives, Kennedy told them Cornish would sell the stolen appliances and would pay him for helping steal them. He told detectives that after the first Scottsdale burglaries, the two took the money and rented a Lamborghini for three days. This is confirmed by social media post of them driving at high speeds on the freeways.
Throw the book at them. I have no tolerance for thieves.
Who would rent a lamborghini to a 20 -22 year old?