Aiden Cornish, 22, and Trent Kennedy, 20, were arrested by Scottsdale Police detectives on July 23 on suspicion of burglarizing three unoccupied homes in Scottsdale between July 14 and July 22 and two in Paradise Valley on June 13 and June 15, according to a press release from the Scottsdale Police Department.

The burglaries involved the loss of about $100,000 in high-end kitchen appliances, the release said.

In one instance, the suspects used proceeds from selling the appliances to rent a Lamborghini for three days, according to the release.

Scottsdale detectives began investigating two residential burglaries that occurred overnight between July 13 and July 14 near Dynamite Boulevard and Alma School Road. While looking for leads on the suspects, they recalled information shared from Paradise Valley Police detectives who were investigating two similar burglaries in their city.

Paradise Valley Police were already investigating two burglaries of high-end appliances between June 13 and June 16. They shared that information with Scottsdale Police to see if Scottsdale detectives were working similar cases. Paradise Valley Police also had neighborhood video footage showing a possible suspect vehicle from one of their cases. A vehicle matching the suspect vehicle description was caught on a photo RADAR camera on June 15, driving toward one of the Paradise Valley victims’ homes.

The license plate captured by the photo RADAR camera came back to a black GMC truck belonging to Aiden Cornish, according to the release.

The camera images also caught someone in the vehicle’s front passenger seat of the truck with Cornish. Through other investigative means, the front passenger was ultimately identified as Trent Kennedy, according to the release.

The truck and trailer were observed later that morning, leaving Paradise Valley loaded with appliances and chairs, which were reported stolen from one of the burglaries, according to the release.
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The suspects then drove the stolen property to a home in Tempe that belonged to Cornish.

On July 23, around 9 a.m., Scottsdale detectives observed Cornish driving the truck, trailer, and stolen property to a storage facility in Phoenix. Once there, detectives pulled the truck over and arrested Cornish without incident. Kennedy was later located and arrested by detectives around 3 p.m.

During his interview with detectives, Kennedy told them Cornish would sell the stolen appliances and would pay him for helping steal them, according to the release. He told detectives that after the first Scottsdale burglaries, the two took the money and rented a Lamborghini for three days. This was confirmed by social media posts of them driving at high speeds on the freeways.

Detectives conducted multiple search warrants, but the only items recovered immediately after the arrests were the appliances from the July 22 Scottsdale burglary loaded on the trailer.

Cornish and Kennedy were both booked and held in custody on burglary charges. Cornish was also booked for trafficking in stolen property.

“The collaboration between Paradise Valley Police and Scottsdale Police was instrumental in the capture of these two suspects,” Scottsdale Assistant Chief of Police Chris Watson said in the release. “We have incredible partnerships with our neighboring law enforcement agencies and regularly share information. By leveraging the latest investigative tools and technology with traditional information sharing, we are making it increasingly more difficult for criminals to commit and get away with crimes.”

With additional information learned after the suspects’ arrests, Scottsdale detectives served a search warrant at a storage facility in Phoenix on Aug. 1 and recovered 10 stolen appliances directly related to the burglaries in Paradise Valley and Scottsdale. The estimated value of the recovered property is about $65,000, according to the release.

Detectives are working to reunite the owners with the recovered property.