An OC Viet man fallegedly wanted a puppy so bad he hired another person to steal it from a pet grooming place for $400, reports the Whittier Daily News here. Now both the hirer and the hiree have been charged.
Brandon Nguyen, 20, of Buena Park, was arrested before Christmas in La Mirada and booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, burglary and possession of stolen property.
The “deadly weapon” he allegedly assaulted with was his Hummer.
The person he allegedly “assaulted” was the pet shop owner.
Allegedly, the story went like this:
On December 20 of last year, Nguyen went into Petian, a pet grooming place on Euclid in Fullerton. There he saw a Yorkshire terrier puppy and decided he wanted it for himself.
The puppy is worth $1,600, and apparently Brandon Nguyen didn’t have $1,600.
But he did have $400. So he went to Daniel Brian Espinoza, 21, and asked Espinoza to steal the puppy for him for $400.
Espinoza then apparently sub-contracted out to another person.
The next day, that person went with Nguyen to Petian. He came to the store asking to see a small-breed dog. Store owner Jae Kang brought out two dogs. The man pretended to play with the dog, and when Kang briefly turned his back, the man ran out with the puppy and into the getaway Hummer driven by Nguyen.
Kang ran after the thief and the Hummer hit him in the arm and leg.
Cops went to the Hummer’s registered address and arrested Nguyen when he drove in two days after the burglary. “Inside the vehicle in a crate,” writes the Whittier Daily News, “was the puppy.”
Espinoza turned himself in and was charged with burglary and grand theft.
That was an awful lot of bullshit to go through for a puppy and 400 bucks
If you want to steal, then steal BIG, like Bernard Madoff’s 50 billion dollars Ponzi scheme. You get to stay in your Manhattan’s million dollar penhouse with 24 hour security guards, and order delivery pizza and steak.
American justice system ! ! !