The Bellevue Police Department’s Special Enforcement Team, with the help of Renton police, tracked down and apprehended two men accused of a burglary spree throughout the Eastside.

One of the suspects told police during questioning that the pair had committed “too many burglaries to remember” this year, stealing a vehicle, jewelry, electronics, cash and firearms.

During the second half of 2015, police report that Bellevue and surrounding Eastside cities were experiencing an increase in residential burglaries in which rocks were being thrown through the rear windows of the homes to gain entry.

In one case on Oct. 7, Bellevue resident Paul Claeys returned to his Lakemont home to find a gray Honda Accord in his driveway and the suspects inside his residence. The two men jumped off the second story roof of the victim’s house, entered their car in the driveway, and then rammed the victim’s car with their vehicle in order to escape.

The suspects’ vehicle had been stolen out of Spokane and had a “Czech Republic” sticker on the rear driver side window.

Then on Nov. 17th, four burglaries occurred in the same day, two in Bellevue and two in Redmond, in which jewelry, electronics, cash, and firearms were stolen. Two separate witnesses saw a blue-colored BMW X5 in the immediate area of the Bellevue burglaries.

The Bellevue Police Department’s Special Enforcement Team was assigned these cases, and their investigation led them to identify Temetrius Hollis and his associate, a 19 year-old Kent resident, as the suspects in these burglaries.

Claeys was able to identify both suspects from a photo line-up, giving police the information needed for a warrant.

On Dec. 2, Bellevue and Renton Police Officers arrested Hollis after he left his Kent apartment. A search warrant Hollis’ apartment led to the recovery of stolen property.

The following week officers located and arrested Hollis’ associate, whose identity has not been released at this time.

Hollis has been charged in King County Superior Court with four counts of residential burglary and two counts of first degree theft, and his associate is expected to be charged pending additional follow up investigation by detectives.