Suspect charged in $35,000 Hayward store burglaries

HAYWARD Police here have arrested a man for allegedly being one of nine people who burglarized two stores within minutes causing more than in loss and damage Leo Smith IV was charged with second degree burglary for allegedly burglarizing a liquor store and a -Eleven located within feet of each other last Jan Police say nine people in three cars participated in the burglary which involved the storefronts being rammed in and looted One of the burglars threatened to shoot a clerk during the -Eleven case officials announced Police identified Smith as the driver of a Dodge Charger involved in both crimes Leadership used surveillance footage pings from his cellphone and compared still photos from the surveillance footage to rap music videos posted to Smith s YouTube account court records show He was arrested on May two weeks after police responded to a document that he struck a relative during a dispute in Oakland He has not been charged in the alleged assault Smith was a suspect in a similar burglary from involving men who ran into an Apple store in Emeryville en masse grabbed merchandise and fled He ended up being sentenced to five years and eight months but served roughly half of that with good behavior court records show After an arrest in Smith was also charged with hiding bindles of cocaine under his genitals in a jail smuggling case according to court records Smith has pleaded not guilty and his preliminary hearing has been set for Friday court records show Bail has been set at