22 September 2012, at approx. 7:54 pm, Officers responded to Safeway
located at 1291 Sanguinetti Road regarding a push out of groceries.
When Officers arrived they contacted store employees. The
employees related that a male and female subject, who had a child with
them, entered the store and filled two shopping carts with groceries and
then pushed the shopping carts past all the cashiers without paying for
the groceries, which was captured on the stores surveillance cameras.
When employees discovered what had occurred, they attempted to
contact the subjects in the parking lot. However, the subjects speed
away after loading all the groceries and child into their vehicle. In
their rush to leave the parking lot, an open passenger door scraped the
vehicle they were parked next to.
Officers were able to identify the suspects as Kerry Lang, 30 of
Sonora, who is on probation for narcotic offenses, and Christopher
Goodrich, 32 of Sonora who is on probation for DUI. The child was Lang’s
one year old son.
With the assistance of the Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office,
both Lang and Goodrich were located at a residence in the County.
Officers from the Sonora Police Department responded to the location in
the County and took Lang and Goodrich into custody.
Lang claimed she had stolen the items to feed her son. However,
some of the items taken were beer, whiskey, dog food, hot peppers, soda
and other items not consumable by a one year old child. Most of the
items were recovered. However, a large portion was destroyed as it was
frozen or refrigerated foods that had defrosted or became warm. Lang and
Goodrich removed $569 in merchandise from the store.
Lang and Goodrich were transported to the Tuolumne County Jail
and booked on several felony and misdemeanor charges. Lang’s son was
turned over to the custody of a relative.
