Police were stumped trying to solve a string of nine residential heists pulled off inside Downtown's Orsini complex, a previously impenetrable place dubbed the Tuscan Rock by Curbed LA. Then came the LAPD's lucky break. The downtownlalife forum on Yahoo picks up the action:

"While we were looking things over, we heard a car crash outside," said Officer Ken Lew, who is one of two Senior Lead Officers in China Town. "When Tim and I went to help at the accident, we noticed all this furniture in one car. It looked odd, and resembled the same stuff taken from the apartments." Lew and Nambu detained two men, Art Artanesyan, 22, and Joshua Carrillo, 30, at the scene. The officers verified the furniture had come from the Orsini burglary... "Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good," said Lieutenant Paul Vernon, head of the Central Detective Division. "But in this case, Officers Lew and Nambu made their luck by doing their job and being in the right place at the right time."

Via Curbed LA