Deputies Arrest Looters Found Near Evacuated South Lake Tahoe Homes

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE (CBS13) — Two suspected looters were arrested successful evacuated South Lake Tahoe this week.

According to the South Lake Tahoe Police Department, deputies from the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office who were successful the country assisting with the Caldor Fire spotted a antheral adjacent a location successful the country of Spruce Avenue and Heather Lake Avenue. Upon seeing the deputies, the man—a 27-year-old South Lake Tahoe resident—reportedly got into a car and tried to thrust away.

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Deputies pulled the operator implicit and determined helium had been looting the area. He faces further charges of failing to permission an evacuation zone, possession of cause paraphernalia, mendacious registration and altering a replica firearm to lucifer a existent one.

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South Lake Tahoe constabulary said deputies besides recovered different antheral successful the backyard of a Herbert Avenue home. That antheral was arrested connected charges of looting, burglary, possession of burglary tools and failing to permission an evacuation zone.

The municipality has been nether mandatory evacuation orders arsenic the Caldor Fire continued to turn and dispersed done El Dorado County toward the eastbound on Highway 50.

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See photos from the arrests below.

CBS13 Staff