Crime Watch

Editor’s note: The following article was compiled from reports recently available at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station. The reports are preliminary, compiled by deputies who respond to calls for service. There is no arrest information available for these reports.

Bonnie & Clyde’s crab grab

In a shoplifting incident at the Sand Canyon Vons on Sept. 25, Sheriff’s Station deputies were called to the store around 8:45 p.m. regarding the theft of more than $600 worth of seafood.

The store manager shared footage with deputies of a man and woman entering the store and wandering the aisles before entering the back of the freezer section, where shipments are delivered.

While in the back, both suspects pretended to be vendors, pushing around a pallet jack. One suspect then grabbed a 20-pound box of king crab legs and walked out of the store without paying. The box was valued at $659.

What’s that in your pocket, sir?

Sheriff’s Station deputies responding to a report of a Sept. 25 theft from a novelty store on Bouquet Canyon Road discovered a couple caught on tape trying to steal handcuffs and two air-powered marital aids built for male enhancement.

At around 2 p.m., a man in a black shirt, red shorts and a black face mask entered the store along with a woman wearing a black shirt, blue shorts and a black face mask.

The informant witnessed a woman picking up several items, putting them back down and then walking around to an aisle out of view of the store’s clerk.

The woman then paid for two items and left the store, at which time the clerk went to the aisle where the woman was last seen and noticed an empty box labeled “Master Series” for “chained bracelets” and two empty boxes labeled “Performance 101” for the aforementioned marital aids.

When deputies reviewed the security footage, they observed the female suspect putting the boxes with the nowstolen items on a shelf where the male suspect was able to open the boxes out of the clerk’s view and then place the cuffs and marital aids in his pockets. The total amount of the theft was valued at $85.

That’s not your truck

A man driving up to his home on Fourl Road noticed a woman exiting his white 2016 Chevy Silverado truck as he was parking.

The victim began yelling at the woman, who immediately ran to a white BMW sedan that was parked in front of the victim’s truck.

The man followed the BMW onto the freeway, but reported he lost sight of the vehicle in the Castaic area and wasn’t able to remember the suspect’s license plate number. The victim noted $50 and some paperwork was stolen.

A neighbor might have had video of the theft, according to the initial report.