Man who lost pants while stealing iPads found hiding in dog house

When Brad Storck fled Sheriff's deputies from Orangevale Open K-8 School, California, with four stolen iPads, he left behind something important: his pants.  Storck's crime occurred on Wednesday, Oct. 17 at around 2:47am. According to a report filed by Sacramento County Sheriff's Department deputies, officers were dispatched to a silent alarm call at the school where they saw Storck casually walking away from the school.

Seeing the deputies, Storck, 35, made a snap-decision. "When deputies first arrived in the area in response to the call, one of them observed Storck hiding behind a tree," said Sheriff's Sgt. Jason Ramos. Once deputies observed Storck hiding out, he took off running and the chase was on, Ramos said. Storck took off westbound through yards, hopping fences and dropping the iPads in the process. It's also around that time Storck dropped his pants.



"We assume that he lost his shorts as he was fleeing, or simply ditched them to be wearing something different than what he was first seen wearing (because we also recovered his sweatshirt along the way)," Ramos said. Storck managed to briefly elude deputies till a K9 officer's dog found him hiding in a doghouse approximately one block south of the fence he jumped, Ramos said.

"After he was caught, a deputy returned to the place he was first seen and found four iPads. It does not appear that he had any kind of bag to carry them in," Ramos said. Storck was booked at Sacramento County's main jail where he faces felony burglary charges. According to the school, the four I-pads are all that were taken and all recovered. Ramos added that Storck's shorts were later found in a yard southwest of the fence.

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