SAN LEANDRO, Calif. — Shortly after he and his brother filed claims against the city of San Francisco for being attacked by a tiger on Christmas Day, Amritpal Dhaliwal was arrested for misdemeanor petty theft for allegedly shoplifting at a Target store in San Leandro, police said.
San Leandro police Lt. Tom Overton said a security guard at the Target store at the Bayfair Center observed Dhaliwal, a 19-year-old San Jose resident, stuffing items inside his pants about 6:30 p.m. Thursday.
Overton said Dhaliwal walked past all the store registers, never attempted to pay for the concealed items and walked outside of the store, where Target security stopped him and put him under citizen’s arrest.
The concealed items were two Nintendo Wii controllers valued at a total of about $80, according to a police report on the incident.
At 10:51 a.m. on Thursday, about eight hours before the alleged shoplifting incident, Dhaliwal and his older brother Kulbir Dhaliwal, filed claims against the city of San Francisco for being attacked by a Siberian tiger named Tatiana at the San Francisco Zoo on Christmas day.
Overton said that Target security officials told police that Amritpal Dhaliwal may also have shoplifted items from stores in Hayward and Fremont.
Overton added that detectives are following up on that information and the Alameda County District Attorney’s office has been notified.
He said that if authorities charge Amritpal Dhaliwal with additional thefts, the charges against him could be upgraded to felonies.
According to the report, when Dhaliwal was asked why he came to the Target store on Thursday, he said, “Just for a stupid ass reason.”
The report says that Dhaliwal claimed the reason he stole the items from Target is, “I just needed something to eat.”
According to the report, when Dhaliwal was asked how often he stole from Target, he said, “I swear to God I never stole from Target except a couple of weeks ago. I stole a bag of Skittles.” More…
I swear to God I didn’t provoke that tiger into attacking us. The animal was clearly unstable if it couldn’t tolerate a few taunts. I can just hear their defense now! Geez! -Sue
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After a life-changing experience like that, instead of finding meaning in life and feeling gratitude at being merely alive, this turd shoplifts.
It’s too bad that it turned out that enclosure was too short. Really just a shame.