Hanford’s JCPenney was hit with significant retail theft over the weekend.
The Hanford Police Department said Monday that thieves took over $1,500 worth of clothes from the department store on Sunday.
The big picture: Hanford police officers responded to a call that three male suspects had run out of the stores with a large stack of stolen jeans.
- Officers found the three suspects hiding behind a business with the jeans.
- All three suspects ran, and police apprehended one of the suspects, Jorge Garcia, 18, of Visalia.
- Garcia was booked into Kings County Jail on grand theft and conspiracy to commit a felony crime.
- While police recovered over $1,500 in stolen merchandise, the other two suspects are still outstanding as of publication on Monday.
