More Charges Filed Against Alleged No-Pants Burglar

filed an amended complaint this week against a Mill Valley man suspected of a string of burglaries and thefts before he for nearly five hours Monday afternoon and was arrested near the completely naked, officials said.

In addition to previously filed felony charges of suspicion of residential burglary, auto burglary, possession of stolen property, drug possession and resisting arrest, as well as a number of misdemeanor charges, 28-year-old Colin Kane is also facing an additional residential burglary charge for allegedly stealing a high-end bicycle from a home, according to detective Sgt. Paul Wrapp.

“And we‘re working on tying some cases to him in addition to those charges that have already been filed,” Wrapp said.

The additional charges are related to crimes Kane allegedly committed in the hours before a witness reported seeing him looking into parked cars in the area around the in the 400 block of Miller Avenue at around 10 a.m., Wrapp said.

As police responded to the area, Kane reportedly got into a car and drove towards downtown, with police suspecting that he stole the car, according to Lt. Ken Dunkel. Police are still investigating the possibility that the car was stolen, Wrapp said.

Police located a car matching the description of the car in the hills near Molino Avenue and officer Joshua Longoria spotted a man on foot matching the description of the suspect, Dunkel said. When the suspect saw Longoria, he ran down a steep hillside through thick vegetation with Longoria in pursuit. At that point, Marin County Sheriff’s deputies and officers from Tiburon, Belvedere and Twin Cities police department joined the chase.

That pursuit lasted nearly five hours, with Kane, reportedly running without shoes and naked from the waist down, covering an area that included Old Mill Park and neighborhoods along Throckmorton, Molino, Lovell and Cornelia avenues, as well as Cascade Drive, according to Dunkel.

During that time, police believed that the suspect had a violent past and put nearby on lockdown briefly at the end of the school day. Police later learned that Kane was merely an associate of the man with the violent history. The lockdown lasted less than an hour, police said.

During the course of the chase, Kane allegedly entered at least one home, hid in several backyards, climbed multiple roofs, jumped off 10-foot-high deck patios and ran through dense brush in the course of evading police, Dunkel said.

Kane was spotted on Throckmorton Avenue at Josephine Street and police drew their Taser guns, Dunkel said, and he surrendered at around 3:30 p.m. without further incident. Kane appeared to be under the influence of narcotics, he added.

Kane, who listed his occupation as a mover when he was booked into Marin County Jail on Monday, remains in custody on $50,000 bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned in Marin County Superior Court on May 7.