On November 30 at about 2:30 p.m.
Officers were patrolling the area of 7th Street & Colorado when they saw a young male adult run by them wearing a backpack and holding a bottle of champagne in his hand with the security sensor still attached to the top. Officers followed the man and eventually caught up to him where they asked him to stop so they could talk to him. The man immediately apologized and gave the officers consent to search his backpack. Officers discovered five additional bottles of champagne with the security sensor on them and labels indicating they came from Vons. Officers contacted a Vons employee who met with them and positively identified the bottles as being stolen from Vons and being worth a total of $617. The employee was not able to identify the man as previously being in the store and could not say for sure if he was the person who stole the bottles. The man did not admit to stealing the champagne so officers placed him under arrest for being in possession of stolen property.
Luther Cox, 19, of Los Angeles had bail set at $1,000.
