911 name, then theft: Indian-origin males arrested in Georgia for weird thefts outdoors their retailer
Two Indian-origin males, Shivamkumar Patel and his pal Anil Yaganti have been arrested by the Marietta police in Georgia in a weird case of theft that led to an armed theft — however the starting was a 911 name that the duo made. In keeping with native experiences, Patel known as 911 and knowledgeable the police that he and his pal Yaganti had detained a 32-year-old shoplifter who was stealing from their liquor store.The shoplifter was recognized as Jeremy Minter. Patel and Taganti detained him at gunpoint as Georgia legislation permits retailers to detain suspected shoplifters beneath sure circumstances. The Police issued the shoplifter a felony trespass warning that prohibited him from coming again to the shop for 5 years.However then the police needed to return to the identical retailer after they acquired a name from the shoplifter, who mentioned he was the sufferer and he was held at gunpoint by the 2 of them earlier than they known as the police. Minter instructed police that the 2 males took turns looking his car as effectively. Later, Minter realized that they stole his handgun from the car. What adopted have been intensive interviews with all three males, which led the police to consider that the obvious shoplifter was proper and there was surveillance footage out there in assist of what he claimed, whereas there have been discrepancies within the statements of Patel and Yaganti. Patel and Yaganti have been arrested and now face a number of severe prices. Patel has been charged with aggravated assault, armed theft, coming into an vehicle with intent to commit theft, kidnapping, false imprisonment, and possession of a firearm through the fee of a felony. Yaganti faces the identical prices, excluding the firearm possession depend. Each are being held with out bond on the Cobb County Grownup Detention Middle. No trial date has been introduced but. Their protection is to argu that Patel and Yaganti have been responding to a shoplifting incident and that is why they searched his car.
