People v. Roosevelt CA4/3

FACTS

On April 25, 2012, around 6:30 p.m., a surveillance video showed Roosevelt walking into the restricted employee-only area at the rear of an Albertson’s grocery store in Fountain Valley. He reached into a locked, chain-link liquor cage and removed two bottles, placed them in his pants and returned to the store. He then bought a soda before departing. Ryan Painter, Albertson’s loss prevention employee, later determined six bottles of Martini & Rossi, worth approximately $90, were missing. A few hours later, a video camera showed Roosevelt entering a Costa Mesa Albertson’s store. Roosevelt again walked to the liquor cage area. An employee told him to leave, but he returned a few minutes later. He hid for a time, and then approached the cage. The next morning, Enrique Avila, the liquor supervisor, noticed empty boxes of expensive liquor outside the cage. Avila inventoried the liquor and determined five bottles, valued at $557, were missing. On April 29, 2012, around 9:00 p.m., Gilbert Sandoval, a loss prevention employee at a Huntington Beach Albertson’s store spotted Roosevelt in the employee- only back room receiving area. When Sandoval directed another employee to notify the…