An 59-year-old Reading man has been charged with repeatedly stealing shrimp from a Wyomissing grocery store, thefts that total nearly $2,000.<\/p>\n
Jaime Torres-Dominguez of the 700 block of Franklin Street is accused of a string of 10 thefts that date to December 2024.<\/p>\n
He was arraigned Monday before District Judge Priscilla Campos on retail theft and receiving stolen property charges. He was placed in Berks County Jail in lieu of $2,500 bail.<\/p>\n
According to court documents:<\/p>\n
All of the retail thefts took place at the Redner\u2019s Market in the 1100 block of Berkshire Boulevard.<\/p>\n
The earliest incident occurred Dec. 11, 2024, and the most recent on Sept. 7.<\/p>\n
Each occurred similarly, with Torres-Dominguez entering the store, heading to the seafood section and selecting bags of frozen shrimp. He then hides the shrimp in a backpack and leaves without paying.<\/p>\n
During each incident, Torres-Dominguez stole five to 12 bags of shrimp. In the Sept. 7 incident, he also stole an undisclosed number of steaks.<\/p>\n
In total, Torres-Dominguez stole at least 78 bags of frozen shrimp with a total value of about $1,962.<\/p>\n
Torres-Dominguez was captured on store video surveillance cameras during several of his thefts, and when confronted by police following a Feb. 28 incident admitted to stealing seafood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 59-year-old Reading man has been charged with repeatedly stealing shrimp from a Wyomissing grocery store, thefts that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706,133],"class_list":["post-32201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg","tag-wyomissing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}