NORTH COUNTY -- A 41-year-old Vista parolee arrested Thursday is suspected in a series of 2008 San Marcos motor-home burglaries after his DNA was recovered from two crime scenes and numerous televisions and computers were found at his residence, a sheriff's sergeant said.

The sheriff's crime lab recently informed San Marcos detectives that DNA recovered from two San Marcos burglary scenes in December and September matched that of Vista parolee Michael Barker, Sgt. Tom Bulow said. The burglaries were among a series of dozens around the same time in which someone took flat-screen televisions, laptop computers and tools from stored recreational vehicles, Bulow said.

On Thursday, San Marcos sheriff's detectives and a state parole officer searched Barker's trailer in the 200 block of Lobelia Road in Vista.

From Barker's trailer and a shed, detectives collected 10 flat-screen televisions, four laptop computers, crystal methamphetamine, marijuana, needles and syringes, a prescription for Vicodin in the name of a state prison inmate, a pellet pistol and rolls of copper wire, Bulow said.

Baker, who was at home, was arrested on suspicion of parole violations, burglary and drug charges. A companion, Tracy Linn, 31, was arrested at the trailer on suspicion of drug possession and other drug charges.