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[KHTS] – A Target employee arrested Friday at the Golden Valley store in Santa Clarita is accused of taking photos of a woman in the store’s changing room, officials said.

Online court records indicate the suspect had a previous conviction for a similar offense.

Ricky Alexander Torres, 21, was arrested around 6:45 p.m. Friday in Target on the 19100 block of Golden Valley Road, after the alleged female victim reportedly caught him taking pictures and notified store employees, officials said.

Target employee arrested at Golden Valley store in Santa ClaritaTorres was placed under a citizen’s arrest by the alleged victim, detained by Target loss prevention officers and then booked at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station, according to Sheriff’s Station officials.

Torres was booked on a charge of disorderly conduct, according to Sheriff’s Station officials.

Ricky Alexander Torres has a previous conviction for a violation of Penal Code section 647(A), which is a disorderly conduct charge, on March 20, 2013, according to Los Angeles County Superior Court records. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail, according to Sheriff’s Department arrest logs.

The California Penal Code description of 647(A), concerns anyone “who solicits anyone to engage in or who engages in lewd or dissolute conduct in any public place or in any place open to the public or exposed to public view.”

He’s due Monday at Newhall Municipal Court in Valencia, and he’s being held at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station in lieu of $10,000 bail.

No additional information about the prior conviction was available Saturday, according to Jean Guccione, spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

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57 Comments

  1. Wtf!!! Really! !!! Ananamiss Roads, how sad!!!

  2. Wtf!!! Really! !!! Ananamiss Roads, how sad!!!

  3. People are disgusting!

  4. Patty Ann says:

    Glad they caught him.

  5. Ooohhh glad I haven’t been there for a while!

  6. Sandra creepers everywhere!!

  7. And Target hires this guy?? How about give my kid a job!!

  8. Thank goodness I never try on clothes in the store.

  9. Gina Aguilar Kim Calzada Natalie Rose Alford

  10. Btw target doesn’t hire the mobile phone people they are hired by an outside company

  11. Smash Hbk Valenzuela Nadia Bauer

  12. Michele Moon says:

    Was he a Target mobile guy? How did they catch him?

  13. Jaclyn Michelle Gibbs, Kim Gibbs

  14. Gabby Ramirez Crazy right?

  15. Rachel Long… Your new Target!

  16. Nice background check. How could they miss a conviction?

  17. Exactly! Why did Target hire this creep??

  18. Jina Younan-youpania Lazar

  19. Sally Rivera says:

    Johnny Rivera Chris Rivera

  20. And good people can’t get jobs everyday.

  21. How invasive .. It makes u only want to shop online or not at all these days

  22. If it’s not Walmart being abusive to those employees and we can’t shop there we can’t shop at target cause some sick youngster can’t keep his P in his pants o

  23. Jan Grovme says:

    GET WILL BE OUT LIKE THE THE GUY WHO ATTEMPT TO RAPE THE 13 YEAR OLD GIRL AT THE BUS STOP..ON PROP 47..GRRRGGG

  24. Matt Graham says:

    O wouldn’t care if my penis showed up

  25. Matt Graham says:

    To be honest he’s a weirdo but they try ed to give him a chance to change

  26. Matt Graham says:

    And some of doomed to live a life of stupided

  27. Matt Graham says:

    And understand not every criminal is the same

  28. Matt Graham says:

    But now target will soon not hire any criminal

  29. Matt Graham says:

    And will lead to a life of crime due too no work for a decent person

  30. Matt Graham says:

    We’re all young once learn that not everyone is created equally

  31. He is probably a professional photographer with his phone.

  32. Teri Cuadros says:

    This is disgusting.

  33. Because 1st time wasn’t enough to fire him so they gave him another chance at it?!?!?!?! Now that one deserves a lawsuit!

  34. Danny Ramos says:

    Did you know that dude

  35. Dennis Clark says:

    That’s Target for you they will transfer anyone that is management and/or has seniority was reason I left made me sick that they transfer them from store to store rather than just terminating them on the spot after convicted

  36. Bella Sgc says:

    Ya ves Marla Landaverde b carefull when u shop at target

  37. God damn it! Judith Aldana

  38. God damn it! Judith Aldana

  39. Jeanne says:

    Some of you are cursing like a little kid who just learned potty words. Geesh. Grow up. I’d like to hear what you have to say but try to get over the urge to show your lack of vocabulary.

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