2 Busted For Shoplifting Tools From Sonoma Co. Store: Police

SONOMA, CA – Two men from Healdsburg and Windsor were arrested Monday afternoon in a Petaluma Kmart parking lot in connection with the theft of $865 of tools from Friedman's Home Improvement store in Sonoma, according to authorities.

Sonoma police deputies were called at 12:42 p.m. by a Friedman’s employee reporting a male ran from the store on Broadway carrying unpaid-for loot and hopped into the passenger seat of a waiting, silver Chevrolet sedan, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said today.

"The alert employee wrote down the license plate of the fleeing vehicle," deputies said, adding that within an hour, property-crimes detectives located the car parked at a Kmart store at 261 N. McDowell Blvd. in Petaluma.

Sheriff's deputies and a Sonoma police deputy waited and watched until two men reportedly exited the Kmart and got into the silver Chevy. The pair, 34-year-old Kasey Robert Crunk of Windsor, and Nicholas Alexander Barnes, 28, a homeless person from Healdsburg, were detained by officials until the Friedman's clerk was driven to the scene to make a positive identification of the male shoplifting suspect, who allegedly ran from the store, deputies said.

Recovered from their vehicle, according to authorities, were Makita and Milwaukee tools, determined to be stolen from the Sonoma Friedman’s and valued at approximately $865.

Crunk and Barnes were booked at the Sonoma County Jail for suspicion of shoplifting, possession of stolen property and conspiracy to commit a crime.

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