A former Tesla employee was arrested last week on suspicion of stealing about $50,000 worth of laptops, tablets and cellphones from the electric car manufacturer’s Fremont facility over a four-day period, authorities said.

According to Fremont police, 28-year-old John Winchester of Fremont, who previously had been fired by Tesla, used a current company employee’s credentials to enter the facility at 45500 Fremont Blvd. at least four times between Jan. 21 and Jan. 24.

Police spokeswoman Geneva Bosques said in an interview that Tesla reported the theft on Jan. 23, just before 1 p.m. However, even after Tesla filed the report and offered video surveillance to police to help identify Winchester, she said he entered again in the early morning hours of Jan. 24 to steal more items.

After contacting a man they believed to be Winchester via Craigslist to purchase some of the stolen goods, police said they arrested Winchester at a Starbucks in the Warm Springs district of Fremont on Jan. 25.

In subsequent searches of his car and a motel room he told police he was staying at, Bosques said police found many of the stolen electronics, which included Apple and HP laptops, iPads, iPods and iPhones. They also arrested 22-year old Rosalinda Toscano, who was at the motel.

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Elon Musk’s wealth exceeds $100 billion; Jeff Bezos worth twice as much Tesla wouldn’t comment on how Winchester was able to repeatedly enter the facility with someone else’s employee badge. But a company spokesperson said in a statement to this newspaper, “Such thefts at our Fremont factory are exceedingly rare, but in the event they do occur, we employ sophisticated video surveillance and monitoring systems, which is how we were able to quickly identify the former employee, alert the authorities – who have since arrested the individual – and recover the stolen property.”

Bosques said it appeared Winchester may have already sold a few of the items before his arrest.

A spokesperson for Tesla said no confidential information was compromised through the thefts.

According to Alameda County District Attorney’s Office documents, Winchester and Toscano both face felony charges of conspiracy to commit theft and four counts of grand theft. Winchester also faces a felony identity theft charge and Toscano two misdemeanor drug charges.

Winchester is being held on $130,000 bail, Toscano on $105,000 bail, and both are scheduled for a pretrial hearing Friday in Hayward.