The following is from the Pleasant Hill Police Department:

Holiday Theft Suppression begins! As we’ve entered the holiday shopping season, we continued our special theft suppression enforcement efforts with local retailers throughout the city. Officers worked together with loss prevention to arrest 16 people in two evening operations occurring within the last week. Those who qualified under new laws have had formal charges filed by the District Attorneys Office related to these operations. All other cases will be sent to the district attorney for review. Two juvenile arrests (residents of Berkeley) were not included below.

Johan Omar-Matchusa 25 – Concord Jade Hill 20 – Vallejo Juis Lara 37 -Brentwood Alexis Pellette 34 –Concord Clara Sanchez 35 –Concord Margarita Bravo 38 –Concord Maria

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