LUFKIN, TX (KTRE) -
Authorities have
arrested a man accused of working with another man in stealing
thousands of dollars worth of electronics at a Lufkin Walmart in June 2011.
Nathan B. Rachal, 21, is
charged with state-jail felony theft.
According to an arrest affidavit, Rachal worked with Kendrick D.
Triggs, 22, of Shreveport, La., on June 28 to steal three Xoom Wi-Fi's and five
RIM Playbooks, valued at $4,292.
Surveillance video recorded at 12:36 a.m. showed two suspects
enter the parking lot in a black car and walk into the electronics section. At
1:13 a.m., the thinner of the two suspects broke into a locked case and took
the items. He then concealed them in a container inside of a shopping cart. At
1:16 a.m., he was shown taking them to the garden section of the store.
According to the affidavit, the video shows the thinner suspect
conceal the items near the north fence of the garden section. At 1:23 a.m., the
suspects are shown driving up to the garden section of the store and stopping.
The suspects then raised the hood and the trunk of the car to make it appear
the vehicle and broken down. The thinner suspect is then seen walking over to
the garden center fence and returning with the stolen items and putting them
into the vehicle, while the heavier suspect acted as a look-out.
According to the arrest affidavit, investigators were able to use surveillance
video to link the suspects to at least two other theft incidents, the first
which occurred on May 19, 2011. The affidavit
stated 14 Nintendo 3 DS players, worth more than $3,000 were stolen from the Lufkin
Walmart electronics department. The suspects were connected to another theft on
July 28, 2011, in which 12 Apple iPads were stolen, valued at $7,598.
Lufkin Police handed the case off to the Department of Public
Safety in October. Walmart loss prevention later told authorities that a group
of suspects had been arrested in Natchitoches, La., for the same type of
thefts. Natchitoches Police then identified the suspects in the video Rachal
and Kendrick D. Triggs, the heavier suspect.
DPS obtained a warrant for Triggs' arrest Feb.
7, 2012.
Rachal was arrested and booked into the Angelina
County Jail on Thursday, where he is being held without bond, as of 11 a.m.
Friday.
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Nathan Rachal. (Source: Angelina County Jail.)
Kendrick Triggs. (Source: Angelina County Jail.)
