{"id":75468,"date":"2017-01-19T18:06:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T02:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=75468"},"modified":"2017-07-30T14:39:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T21:39:18","slug":"two-former-dodger-stadium-security-guards-third-man-charged-in-plot-to-steal-team-merchandise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2017\/01\/19\/two-former-dodger-stadium-security-guards-third-man-charged-in-plot-to-steal-team-merchandise\/","title":{"rendered":"Two former Dodger Stadium security guards, third man charged in plot to steal team merchandise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">LOS ANGELES &#8211; Two former Dodger Stadium security guards and a third man pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges stemming from an alleged plot to steal baseball equipment and other items from secured areas at the ballpark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former guards <\/span><b>Juan DeDios Prada<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 58, of Palmdale, and<\/span><b> Fernando Sierra<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 62, of Lancaster, and co-defendant <\/span><b>Jesse Luis Dagnesses<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 51, of Huntington Park, are charged with one felony count of conspiracy to commit burglary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prada and Sierra are also charged with one felony count of second-degree commercial burglary, while Dagnesses is charged with one felony count of receiving stolen property exceeding $950 in value.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The criminal complaint alleges that the three &#8220;conspired to take baseball equipment, uniforms and fan-giveaway bobbleheads from the locked equipment room and other secured areas&#8221; within Dodger Stadium in an effort to sell the items online for profit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPrada and Sierra used masks, gloves and headlamps to enter a locked equipment room and steal more than $3,400 worth of equipment between January 2013 to February 2016,\u201d prosecutors alleged in a <a href=\"http:\/\/da.lacounty.gov\/media\/news\/ex-dodger-stadium-security-guards-arraigned-stealing-selling-team-merchandise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney\u2019s Office<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Numerous Dodgers bats, Major League Baseball baseballs and jerseys that had been stolen from the Dodgers&#8217; equipment room were found by Los Angeles police during a search of Dagnesses&#8217; home in February 2016, according to prosecutors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The three defendants are due back in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Feb. 16 for a pretrial hearing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prada and Sierra could face more than three years in jail if convicted as charged, while Dagnesses could face more than four years behind bars, according to the District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The case against a fourth man who had been charged along with them was dismissed earlier this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES &#8211; Two former Dodger Stadium security guards and a third man pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges stemming from an alleged plot to steal baseball equipment and other items from secured areas at the ballpark. Former guards Juan DeDios Prada, 58, of Palmdale, and Fernando Sierra, 62, of Lancaster, and co-defendant Jesse Luis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}