This story has been updated with additional details about Stokes' arrest.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – An Upper Lake man sought since last week for his alleged involvement in a series of Lakeport burglaries has been arrested in Santa Cruz County.

Jeffery William Stokes, 25, was arrested on Friday in Capitola, according to Lakeport Police Chief Brad Rasmussen.

Rasmussen said Capitola Police notified his agency at 11:30 a.m. Friday that they had a lead on Stokes' whereabouts and they wanted to confirm the Lake County arrest warrant that had been issued for him.

“They got a call from a relative that reported he showed up at their house, and they advised him to leave and they called the police,” said Rasmussen.

He said Capitola Police also had received a tip that Stokes was at a shopping mall.

Capitola Police officers then went looking for Stokes and located him, at which point he gave them false names. However, Rasmussen said police were able to positively identify Stokes.

Rasmussen said his agency received word at 2 p.m. that Stokes had been arrested and booked into the Santa Cruz County Jail.

The Lakeport Police Department had put out another call to the community on Thursday seeking leads as to Stokes' whereabouts.

Rasmussen said they had received numerous leads as to where he may have been but hadn't been successful in finding him.

An arrest warrant was issued for Stokes this week, with the Lake County District Attorney's Office charging him with 19 separate counts for the downtown break-ins, Rasmussen said.

He's facing eight counts of felony burglary, five counts of felony possession of stolen property, four counts of misdemeanor theft, and one count each of misdemeanor possession of burglary tools and vandalism, according to the Lakeport Police Department.

Stokes' alleged accomplice in the burglaries, 46-year-old Kimberly Jo Harvey of Nice, was arrested on Jan. 9 at the Anchorage Inn in Lakeport after police found her – along with items of stolen property and burglary tools – in a motel room registered to Stokes, as Lake County News has reported.

Harvey, who has an extensive criminal history with multiple convictions for crimes including theft, forgery and burglary, remains in the Lake County Jail, with bail set at $200,000, according to jail records.

Arrangements for Stokes to be transported back to Lake County are pending the status of any local charges in Santa Cruz County, Rasmussen said.

Stokes is being held on the $200,000 Lake County warrant of arrest, with Rasmussen adding that he also was charged with providing false information to Capitola Police.

Rasmussen thanked the numerous members of the public who provided information about where Stokes may have been hiding out.

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