Watsonville Police have identified the suspect who was arrested Oct. 3 after he holed up inside a vacant home on Clifford Avenue.
Javier Diaz Baruc, 30, was charged with burglary, resisting arrest, and possession of drugs and drug paraphernalia, along with multiple outstanding warrants for trespassing, domestic violence, resisting arrest with injury to an officer, and evading in a vehicle.
He is being held without bail in Santa Cruz County Jail, jail records showed.
Police initially got calls about shattered glass and someone prowling inside a home on the 100 block of Clifford around 1pm. They surrounded the single-story home and detached garage and made loud announcements for anyone to come out. After getting no response, they send a drone through a doorway in the garage where they heard movement.
That’s when they narrowed their search to a wood cabinet inside the garage where Baruc was hiding and refused to come out. With the aid of a pry bar, police tore off a cabinet door, where Baruc emerged and began fighting with police.
Four officers handcuffed him and took him into custody.
One neighbor said he had seen the man wandering through the neighborhood checking out homes.
