LAKEPORT, Calif. – Two Lucerne residents are in custody in connection with the burglary of a Lakeport church on Thursday morning.

Miguel Antonio Velez, 30, and Michelle Denise Miller, 44, were arrested by Lakeport Police officers following the burglary at United Christian Parish, according to a report from Police Chief Brad Rasmussen.

At 10:15 a.m. Thursday Lakeport Police units were dispatched to investigate the report of a burglary in progress at the church, located in the 700 block of North Brush Street, Rasmussen said.

He said the reporting party advised that the two suspects – later identified as Velez and Miller – took a $1,500 laptop computer from the church office.

Responding officers located and detained both Velez and Miller at the scene and determined that they acted together in removing the laptop computer from the church, Rasmussen said.

Rasmussen said Velez is currently on Post Release Community Supervision (PRCS) due to California AB 109 Realignment.

Velez has numerous prior arrests for drugs and violence charges and a felony conviction for burglary where he was sentenced to state prison for four years in February 2011, Rasmussen said.

Velez was arrested and booked into jail for burglary and violation of probation, according to Rasmussen, while Miller was arrested and booked into jail for burglary and possession of controlled substance paraphernalia.

The computer was recovered and returned to the church, Rasmussen said.