Crime Alert 08.08.23
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Burglar recognized by conspicuous shoes. The 'Tahoe Foot Fondler' caught with DNA.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now, a Florida crumble cookies manager watches their security footage back after a break-in. |
| 0:08.6 | A man carrying a large backpack enters the bakery through his side door, steals all the cash from the safe and register then leaves, all without triggering the alarm. |
| 0:18.2 | The manager notices the man wearing bright red crocs and immediately recognizes him as a former employee, Jacob Ortega, who frequently wore the very same shoes to work. |
| 0:29.9 | Ortega, who had recently been fired, used unchanged access codes to get into the bakery, register, and safe. |
| 0:36.4 | Authorities have not yet released information on how much cash Ortega stole, but some of it was recovered from an acquaintance's vehicle. |
| 0:43.6 | Ortega tells police the remaining cash was spent on food and alcohol for himself and friends. |
| 0:48.9 | Ortega, 18, admits to the robbery and is now charged with burglary and grand theft. |
| 0:55.3 | Now that's some cookie-master. |
| 0:57.0 | A woman staying in a vacation condo in Lake Tahoe wakes in the middle of the night to find a man at the foot of her bed rubbing her feet. |
| 1:04.0 | She screams and tries to confront him. He gets away two days later. |
| 1:08.3 | The so-called Tahoe footballer strikes again, breaking into a second woman's condo. |
| 1:13.9 | Douglas County Sheriff's collect DNA samples from the women's feet, and ID their suspect as Mark Gonzalez, previously arrested in the area for stealing women's shoes. |
| 1:25.5 | Gonzalez, 26, now charged with two counts each, burglary, and battery. |
| 1:30.1 | Well, if the shoe fits. |
| 1:32.0 | More crime and justice news after this. |
| 1:36.7 | Now with the latest crime and justice breaking news, crime aligns John Lemley. |
| 1:40.2 | For his part in the murder of George Floyd, to Tahoe, the final ex-officeer in the Minneapolis Police Department has been found guilty in state court, receiving a four-year nine-month sentence. |
| 1:52.1 | For more, we turn to Sydney Sumner with crime online. |
| 1:55.6 | It was on May 25, 2020 that former officer Derek Chauvin, a white man, knelt on Floyd's neck for nine-and-a-half minutes as the black man begged for his life. |
| 2:04.7 | To Tahoe, claim that he was only acting as a quote, human traffic cone to keep onlookers away. |
| 2:10.2 | Floyd's waning sobs of, I can't breathe, were captured on video by a passerby. |
| 2:14.9 | Tahoe was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter back in May by Hennepin County Judge Peter Cahill. |
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