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VISALIA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral attempting to bargain goods from a location betterment store was stopped by an off-duty constabulary serviceman and employees from a adjacent business, the Visalia Police Department said.
Saturday afternoon, conscionable aft 1:30 p.m., Visalia constabulary were dispatched to the Home Depot astatine Demaree Street and Caldwell Avenue for a study of a theft successful progress.
The caller said that idiosyncratic had walked retired of an exigency exit with a loaded buying cart and became convulsive erstwhile confronted by the store's Loss Prevention staff.
Additionally, officers were told that an off-duty serviceman was progressive successful a carnal altercation with the suspect, identified by investigators arsenic 53-year-old Jimmy Aguirre.
Police said that arsenic Aguirre walked retired of the store and done the parking lot, helium caused terrible harm to a conveyance that helium struck with a metallic pipe.
The off-duty serviceman saw Aguirre and ordered him to stop. The serviceman identified himself and displayed his badge, and it was past that constabulary said that Aguirre struck him.
Investigators said the serviceman was capable to physically detain Aguirre with assistance from Oil Changer employees adjacent doorway until Visalia constabulary officers arrived astatine the scene.
Aguirre, who was determined to beryllium connected parole, was arrested and booked astatine the Tulare County Adult Pre-Trial Detention Facility connected suspicion of robbery, felony vandalism, artillery connected a bid officer, and a usurpation of his parole.
He is scheduled to beryllium successful tribunal connected Wednesday afternoon.
