Man arrested in thefts of headphones, trash can and bicycle

By Ben BrazilStaff Writer

Oct. 6, 2016 5:57 PM PT

Newport Beach police arrested a man Wednesday on suspicion of stealing boxes of headphones, a trash can and a bicycle.

Police responded to a report of an alarm sounding at a RadioShack at 2700 W. Coast Hwy. at about 3a.m.

Officers searched the building and found that several boxes of headphones were missing from the store, police said.

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An officer walked to a nearby greenbelt and saw a man sitting next to a bicycle with boxes of headphones in a trash can next to him, police said.

According to police, the man admitted to stealing the headphones from the RadioShack and to stealing the bicycle from a Costa Mesa bike shop a week earlier and the trash can from a post office.

Rodney Salazar, 26, of Lake Forest was arrested on suspicion of commercial burglary and theft of property from a U.S. post office, police said.

Ben Brazil, benjamin.brazil@latimes.com

Twitter: @benbrazilpilot

Ben Brazil

Ben Brazil is a former features writer for TimesOC who went on to work as a News Desk multiplatform editor for the Los Angeles Times. He previously covered Huntington Beach for the Daily Pilot. Before joining the Daily Pilot in September 2016, he was a reporter for City News Service, a Southern California-based news service. Brazil earned his bachelor’s degree in anthropology from UC Berkeley.