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The pressure of Holiday shopping may have compelled 25-year-old Inglewood, Ca. resident Breana Codd, 18-year-old Oxnard resident Hector Saucedo and their two male juvenile cohorts to ignore society’s custom of paying for merchandise before leaving a retail store with items in hand.
Alternatively, the foursome may have simply had criminal intentions on the afternoon of December 19th, at the height of the shopping season at the Camarillo Premium Outlets, when store personnel alerted the Camarillo Police Department to what Ventura County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Detective Robert Medina described as “a waiting getaway vehicle” parked outside their retail store.
Upon arrival at the scene, deputies attached to the Camarillo Special Enforcement Unit made contact with Saucedo, Codd, and the two juveniles who were in possession of “$1,781.48 in merchandise” which they had purloined from “six retailers at the Camarillo Outlets” with what has become a standard modus operandi by “organized retail theft crews.” With multiple crew members working in a synchronized thievery with another of the team waiting in a getaway vehicle, the suspects “displayed the coordination and pre- planning” typical of such operations.
Saucedo and Codd were arrested and transported to Ventura County Jail where they were booked on charges of Grand Theft, Conspiracy to Commit a Crime, Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor, Possession of Burglary Tools, and Shoplifting. The two male juveniles were booked on similar charges at Ventura County Juvenile Detention.
