The younger of two brothers who survived a Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo was charged Tuesday with five felony counts accusing him of shoplifting video game equipment from Target stores in the East Bay, authorities said.Paul Dhaliwal, 19, was arrested March 27 by San Leandro police after a security guard at the Target at the Bayfair Center mall on East 14th Street saw him hiding two Nintendo Wii controllers in his pants, police Lt. Tom Overton said.
An investigation led police to conclude that Dhaliwal had stolen similar equipment from a Target store in Livermore on March 24 and from the chain's Hayward store March 25 and again March 27, Overton said.
Dhaliwal was charged Tuesday with three counts of commercial burglary and two counts of grand theft in connection with the incidents, said Ann Diem, an Alameda County assistant district attorney. Dhaliwal, who is in custody at the Santa Clara County Jail on a probation violation, is to appear next Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court.
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