Posted on 10/01/2024 6:30:42 PM PDT by simpson96
FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) — Two accused thieves targeted a clothing store near Downtown Fresno Monday afternoon—but likely never expected what happened next.
“I’m infuriated. They’re kids,” said Hermila Sanchez, owner of Sanchez Women’s Apparel on Fresno Street.
She says the two teenage boys walked into her store around 2p.m. and made a beeline for stacks of Levi’s 501 jeans.
“They’re our biggest seller,” said Maritza Solorio, Sanchez’s daughter.
Solorio says most of the stack the teenagers stole had been on hold—saved for people who reserved them online.
Instead, she says they grabbed the piles of jeans, a few shirts and some facemasks before running out of the store.
Sanchez says one of her daughters went to get the keys to the family’s SUV.
“I didn’t care, I ran out across the street after them,” Sanchez said.
Another family member alerted Sanchez’s husband, who was nearby.
He ran out, hoping to catch up to the chase.
She says one of the teens ran into a nearby yard.
The other, ran right into her husband, one street over.
“He started hitting my dad,” Solorio says. “My dad called my cousin over to hold him.”
Sanchez says the two held onto the teen until police arrived.
He only had a few of the stolen items on him.
But Sanchez says that wasn’t the point.
“They’re so young. They have their whole lives ahead of them. People who are homeless have come here asking for shirts, pants I’ve helped them. I would have helped them too,” she says.
After all, she says she didn’t start with much.
She launched her business during the pandemic, buying $300 worth of masks that she then sold from her front yard.
While police say the teenager who was taken into custody may likely only face misdemeanor charges, Sanchez hopes his parents—and the other teen’s parents-- take note.
"The Sanchez family held onto the teenager until police arrived."
I want to own a donut shop next to that guy’s police station.
If those teens have fathers in their lives and if their dads are worth their salt 🧂, they’ll teach their sons each a lesson they’ll never forget.
Yes, it does sometimes.
“Kids” means nothing. This ain’t Leave it to Beaver. Entire militias of bloodthirsty kids are commonplace in the third world. Murderous gangs and criminal syndicates employ ‘kids’ due to their peculiar legal status. Kids... spit.
In Kookifornia I’m surprised the Sanchezes weren’t arrested for fighting back.
That family is very lucky these two wannabe shoplifters were not the combative type. Can you imagine the store owner holding tight onto the thief’s wrist and refusing to let him go? Some of these guys in Oakland would have caved the store owner’s head in before they quickly surrendered like these boys. It probably helped that both victims and shoplifters were all the same race. The authority of the older shop owner was easily accepted by the boys.
“In Kookifornia I’m surprised the Sanchezes weren’t arrested for fighting back.”
That’s more a European/UK influence thing. Western U.S. does not share those sentiments, but you will see it in the NE.
What? California is finally enforcing a law?
I lived near Fresno, the Hispanics there don't take crap.
Entire neighborhoods would empty out on the street to dispense justice. If you want to be a criminal fine, just don't do it in our hood.
camo pants - might be an illegal.
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