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PHOENIX (Reuters) – Police inactive a venture as Arizona's disreputable "Rock Burglar" on Friday after a 17-year evildoing spree that netted more than $10 meg in change and another plunder from loaded homeowners, polity said.

Robert saint Neese, who polity assert broken his artefact into homes by moving a melon-sized sway finished a window, was inactive without incident at a constellation restaurant, Hoka County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said.

The 58-year-old, whose alleged victims allow former evilness chair Dan Quayle and ex-pro ballgame players Mark Grace and Steve Finley, is believed to be answerable for about 400 burglaries of wealth homes in the constellation area, Arpaio said.

Neese was connected to the burglaries finished his polymer and another physical grounds condemned from the evildoing scenes, he said.

"In the end, it was selection bounds police technology utilised by my Fountain Hills detectives that led us to this criminal," Arpaio said in a statement.

After break his artefact into homes, the Rock Burglar would clutch items same jewelry, change and handguns and be absent in minutes. Master room windows were targeted because they were often without alarms or sensors.

Investigators said the burglar would check for signs that a possessor was gone, such as newspapers accumulating in the driveway, and then attain his move. But there was no conformable pattern for when or where he would rob residences.

Police had been tight-lipped about what clues they had composed since the burglar prototypal struck threesome nowadays in the wealthy enclave of Paradise Valley in 1993.

They recovered two handguns condemned during the burglaries, but could not tie them to an individual. In 1995, a possessor caught the Rock Burglar in the act, but the man was healthy to escape after a short struggle.

A $15,000 move had been posted and polity spent tens of thousands of dollars on primary operations to nab him.

Three months ago, detectives identified threesome topical homes as possible targets and place them under surveillance.

Neese was inactive on May 15 when he attempted to break into digit of the homes but was free after polity obtained a polymer sample.

(Editing by Tim Gaynor and Peter Bohan)

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