2 ARRESTED IN THEFT OF $1,000 IN GAMES.Byline: Greg Botonis Staff Writer LANCASTER - Two men were arrested Monday evening after stuffing their clothes full of video games See video game console. at a Lancaster Circuit City electronics store and trying to walk out, officials said. The men were captured by a sheriff's detective who was working on the city's holiday shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into patrols and who had been talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to Circuit City employees at a counter near the front door, officials said. ``One of the men had 10 games and the other one had eight,'' said Detective Mike Naccarato, who arrested the two men. ``They had them stuffed inside their baggy bag·gy adj. bag·gi·er, bag·gi·est Bulging or hanging loosely: baggy trousers. bag sweat clothes.'' Clenton Easley, 20, and Anthony Henry Anthony Daniel Henry (born November 3 1976 in Fort Myers, Florida) is an American football cornerback in the NFL with the Dallas Cowboys. He played for Estero High School in Estero, Florida, college football at the University of South Florida and was selected in the fourth round , 22, both of Palmdale, were arrested on suspicion of grand theft and commercial burglary and were taken to the Lancaster sheriff's station, where they were being held in lieu of $10,000 bail each, authorities said. Naccarato was working overtime in uniform for the holiday patrol and was walking through the Circuit City store at 44600 Valley Central Way checking for any problems. He was talking to employees when he heard the front door alarm go off. Naccarato spotted the two men leaving the store followed closely behind a manager yelling yell v. yelled, yell·ing, yells v.intr. To cry out loudly, as in pain, fright, surprise, or enthusiasm. v.tr. To utter or express with a loud cry. See Synonyms at shout. n. at them to stop, officials said. Naccarato chased the men and detained de·tain tr.v. de·tained, de·tain·ing, de·tains 1. To keep from proceeding; delay or retard. 2. To keep in custody or temporary confinement: them right outside the front doors. He searched the pair and found the games, later estimated to be worth more than $1,000, Naccarato said. The two men had dropped the games inside their baggy sweat pants and shirts, the manager told Naccarato. Naccarato said he would like to see the stepped up patrols extended throughout the year. ``We have made a lot of arrests and prevented even more just from the high visibility,'' Naccarato said. ``It's a great program.'' Deputies assigned to holiday patrols concentrate on businesses and shopping centers and are not assigned regular calls for service. They do routine patrols of large, heavy traffic areas in shopping centers and frequently get out of their cars to patrol on foot. The extra staffing is paid for by the city and deputies volunteer for the overtime duty, officials said. |
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