14 July 2013, at approx. 4:15 pm, Wal-Mart loss prevention called the
Sonora Police Department and reported they were watching two subjects
who had performed some suspicious behavior.
The subjects had placed a large amount of merchandise in a
shopping cart. They then removed some shopping bags from a closed
checkout area and walked to another part of the store where they placed
all the merchandise inside the cart into the shopping bags.
Officers responded to the area and stood by. The two subjects
went through an open checkout stand and paid for one pack of cigarettes
and made no attempt to pay for the items they had placed inside the
shopping bags.
When the two subjects exited the store they were contacted by
Officers. The subjects were identified as Charles Bowers, 23 of Sonora
and Bart Salazar, 40 of Sonora. Both were taken into custody without
incident. The merchandise in the cart that Bowers and Salazar had failed
to pay for totaled over $744. It was also learned that Bowers had two
outstanding warrants for his arrest, one for theft and another for
vandalism.
Bowers and Salazar were transported to the Tuolumne County Jail
and booked for burglary and conspiracy. Bowers was also booked on the
two outstanding warrants.
