SEATTLE -- A Seattle man was charged Friday with a string of burglaries at the homes of prominent current and former football and baseball players, marking the latest example of well-known athletes being targeted in home thefts.

Earl Henderson Riley IV, 21, was charged with several counts of residential burglary in both occupied and unoccupied homes, along with first-degree robbery, according to the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.

Prosecutors say Riley was the ringleader in a series of burglaries that started in February and involved stealing more than $6,000 in Louis Vuitton bags from Mariners pitcher Luis Castillo 's home and over $194,000 in high-end purses and jewelry from the home of the Seattle center fielder Julio Rodriguez .

The thefts also involved taking sever

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