West Sacramento Man Gets 4 Years in Prison for Dozens of Target Thefts

A West Sacramento man was sentenced March 22 for stealing just over $18,000 in Legos, electronics, action figures, and household items from Sacramento-area Target stores over a one-year period, prosecutors said in a press release. On March 22, Yolo County Superior Court Judge Tom Dyer sentenced Nicholas Juarez Lopez to four years in prison for two convictions of grand theft and one of attempted grand theft, according to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office. Mr. Juarez Lopez committed about 45 thefts in the greater Sacramento area since January 2022. The defendant told investigators he stole with the intention of reselling the items to support his drug habit, according to a March 25 press release by the district attorney’s office....