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On May 22, 2015 in the early afternoon, the above pictured individuals walked into a local business in the Santa Clarity Valley.

One of them took three X Box 500 GB game systems valued at $400 each and placed them in a shopping cart. Both individuals then walked past all open registers making no attempt to pay for the game systems in the shopping cart and exited the store. They were last seen getting into a 2 door black Hyundai Tiburon.

If you recognize the above pictured individuals, please contact the Santa Clarita Sheriff’s Station.

If you have any information please contact Detective O’Brien and the SCV Sheriff’s Station, 661-255-1121 ext. 2317.

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78 Comments

  1. And a bag of marshmallow peeps??

  2. Mike Yanez says:

    Told you! Garbage

  3. David Hauck says:

    That’s considered stolen

  4. Rafa Felix says:

    that’s a Hyundai Genesis. not a Tiburon, noobs.

  5. See Camilo Campuzano, Crime Rate in SCV is up on all crime…

  6. Tyger White says:

    I am from Canyon Country and still got a laugh out of this.

  7. Aren’t the Xboxes locked up like the games? They don’t even give them to you and make you pay in the electronics department. Who unlocked them and gave them to them? Hmmm…

  8. why was is so easy to walk out?? No working detector at the door??

  9. Cathy Cotton says:

    If that’s Target then they deserve it. Seriously? This has been going on there for at least a decade. Duh.

  10. Dean Botton says:

    XBOX is worth nothing anyway, they did the store a favor.

  11. Simone ese, we got some new Xboxes homes

  12. George Elias says:

    Ozzy Bastian Salgado

  13. Sergio Alvarez and Jesse Medina

  14. Veronica Olvera Jhonny Claudio Olvera

  15. I’m sorry, but if it’s THAT easy to walk out with $800 in merchandise then it should be theirs.

  16. Liz Garcia S Randy Sandoval

  17. Haha, “Local business”, why not just say Target?

  18. I’ve lived everywhere inside of SCV including CC. This is hilarious!!! Thanks for the laugh!!

  19. No reason for them to fear— now a days when you go to report theft you are told,” oh, it’s not worth it to prosecute.”
    They acknowledge you were robbed, but if the amount isn’t high enough, the authorities let it go.

    So here the criminals are being brazen because experience is teaching them there will be no consequences.

  20. First of all aren’t those things locked up?? U can’t just get one off the shelf … How did they get them out of the locked area?? Sounds like and INSIDE job to me

  21. I’ve helped in investigations.
    What business was robbed?

  22. Doesn’t matter what CITY you live in…..Each city has a “Hood”.

  23. Really this is a shoplifter!! There are bigger thieves in the area they should concentrate on

  24. Thanks to all the knuckleheads who voted to pass Proposition 47. They know if they’re caught it’s not enough money to go to jail.

  25. Lol i stay there cx

  26. Sadly ive witness something like this during black friday the guy just walked out with a ps3 and no employee tried to stop him or a gahrd or anyone.

  27. Karina Diaz says:

    Stay out of our wonder and therapeutic Target stores criminals, its the only place a lot ladies have left to comfortably unwind!

  28. Jakes way is Not canyon country. It may be in cc but we alllll disown it.

  29. Al Aird says:

    Hispanics, part of their welfare entitlements as illegals. You people don’t get it. Just leave them alone.

  30. Ryan Orona says:

    Si se puede…….

  31. Eduardo Camey Jerry Montoya

  32. The store can write it off at the end of the year. The fact that they were able to walk out should have employees in trouble. Cameras everywhere and no one said or did a thing.

  33. How can this happen when all that stuff is locked n u must pay prior to heading towards the front.

  34. How can this happen when all that stuff is locked n u must pay prior to heading towards the front.

  35. Denny says:

    And here I thought these folks just wanted to come to this country to pick lettuce.

  36. It’s not worth it as an employee to try to stop a thief. Probably earning minimum wage and you’re going to put possibly your life on the line for a theft your employer can end up writing off. I think not. Actually, in a good business, employees are told to just let thieves go.

  37. They just stole the magnet key and walked out but I am sure they were caught after they walked out of the store. There is so many cameras and I am sure the police were called the second they walked toward the doors!!!

  38. Maybe my eyes are deceiving me here but they are bringing out 3 electronic items in their car but they don’t appear to be xbox ones.

  39. They practically strip search me when I walk out.

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