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Glendora Police report rise in residential burglaries, cite regional task force and technology in recent arrests
Summary
Lieutenant Matthew Fenner told the Glendora City Council that residential burglaries rose in 2024–25 and the department has joined regional task forces, expanded youth diversion and used license‑plate readers and partnership investigations to arrest suspects tied to Glendora crimes.
Lieutenant Matthew Fenner, Glendora Police Department, told the City Council the department is seeing an uptick in residential burglaries and has stepped up prevention, patrols and regional coordination.
Fenner said the department joined a countywide burglary task force in January and that the team has arrested 28 burglars countywide so far this year, with eight arrests tied to Glendora burglaries. "We joined the countywide burglary task force. This team…already arrested 28 burglars," Fenner said. He also said the department rejoined a children's ICAC unit in March and that the unit had arrested an online predator targeting youth.
The presentation outlined a mix of enforcement and prevention measures: extra patrols in targeted neighborhoods, neighborhood‑watch outreach, juvenile diversion programs and improved technology such as license‑plate readers (LPRs) and camera evidence. Fenner described a case in which a resident’s Ring camera and an LPR hit helped detectives track a suspect vehicle out of county to an arrest during a separate burglary. "The plate was captured on a LPR reader…Our detectives then tracked that plate to Los Angeles," he said.
Fenner gave specific patrol statistics and operational details: he said the department conducted extra patrols (24 in the Morgan Ranch/Glendora Country Club area, 95 along the Sierra Madre route and 35 in the Hunters Trail area), and he reported a four‑minute average response time for priority 1 calls. He urged residents to report suspicious activity quickly: "We're encouraging people to be attentive…and call and report crimes as they occur," he said.
Fenner also highlighted a retail‑theft partnership with Kohl's. He said the district average loss rate is about 9% (about $1,100,000 in shrink) while the Glendora store's loss rate fell to 2.59% (about $347,000), which he presented as a roughly $750,000 reduction tied to joint enforcement, prevention and prosecution efforts.
Council members asked follow‑up questions about response times and community engagement. Fenner reiterated the department’s emphasis on community reporting and said some case details cannot be posted publicly for privacy and investigative reasons. No formal council action was taken on the report; the presentation was an informational quarterly update.
