PALMDALE – A 25-year-old parolee described as a real-life Grinch for allegedly stealing gifts from beneath a Christmas tree at a home in Palmdale was arrested Thursday.
The burglary occurred about 5:15 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 23, at a home in the 1200 block of East Avenue S, according to Deputy Jodi Wolfe of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Palmdale Station.
The suspect entered the home, pulled a backpack from under his shirt and began taking gifts that were under a Christmas tree and other items, according to Wolfe.
The burglar’s image was captured on security video and the sheriff’s department subsequently identified Derrick Hairston of Palmdale as a possible suspect in the case.
Hairston was arrested at 11:40 a.m. Thursday and booked on suspicion of burglary. He is being held without bail and was scheduled to appear in court Monday in Lancaster, according to sheriff’s inmate records.
Hairston was already on parole, according to the sheriff’s department, but details about his prior conviction and of his arrest were not immediately available.
Investigators are checking to see if Hairston was possibly involved in other burglaries in the area.
Previous related story: Public’s help sought in Christmas burglary
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callingitasitis says
@ Tim Scott
Who said the firearm is the only option? It is just one of many tools. Anyone can exercise other options. There were two elderly gentlemen in Pasadena (channel 9 news, last night) who stop their home intruder by hands and a stool. It was their willingness to Fight that gave them an advantage over the criminal. What advantage did the criminal who killed two NYCPD officers last year have over the officers? Ambushed, his one and only goal was to kill the officers. Not even the President’s security detail can assure a 100% stop of an assassin willing to die.
callingitasitis says
@ Tim Scott
As a former US Army NCO of our Great Nation. I am always alert and ready. Hyper vigilant is my everyday status (Situational awareness) Sir. I am okay with those who wish to walk around in the land of La La. It is their right and their life, it is not my life. A firearm is only a tool as any tools, it is only as good as skills set behind it. It should never be your only tools in your tool kit. As for my Army brats (which are now adults) I have confidence in their skills sets, I did my duty both as father & teacher. You are right some people can’t pull the trigger and take that life, it is not natural. Every action has consequences and you have to live with them. As for me and the criminal’s life or my life, I can only say will have to carry that memory for the rest of my life.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
George Washington
Tim Scott says
So, what did the army teach you would be an appropriate response if you have a gun in a holster and someone else, who engineered the encounter, has a gun pointed at your head? I’m realistic enough to say that my options would be die or cooperate. Are you?
I’m all for situational awareness, but the fact is that the criminal has far more awareness of the situation at a crime scene. They KNOW it is a crime scene before any evidence indicates that it is. To pretend that you are so “clued in” that you will “see it coming” is a pretense. To claim that you are “always at the ready” every time you step out your door is ridiculous. That would be like maintaining firefight readiness in the barracks at Fort Leavenworth…it would only dull the edge.
And that’s you, a trained veteran. And me, since I openly admit that the military left me with no conscience whatsoever. But it certainly isn’t the average gun owner.
J says
Glad they caught this idiot! Karma bit him in the butt big time! He looked right into the camera!
Turd Ferguson says
They caught him without LEAPS?They caught him without LEAPS?How could it be?How could it be?LEAPS is a crime fighting sentinel in the sky.LEAPS is a crime fighting sentinel in the sky.That costs $90,000.00 a month.That costs $90,000.00 a month.For ten years.For ten years.That is $10,800,000.00.That is $10,800,000.00.For a useless plane.For a useless plane.No to LEAPS.No to LEAPS.Yes to Sherriffs.Yes to Sherriffs.More boots on the ground.More boots on the ground.
Lineman56 says
Dirt bag. Punk
callingitasitis says
@Magnetlady
It is coming our way. Wait and see. I read a story in Long Beach of a 29 years old suspect involved in a residential burglary being shot by a home owner. The suspect died at the hospital. Investigation still pending.
Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
Theodore Roosevelt,
Tim Scott says
LOL…I always get a good laugh out of the “armed and ready” crowd. Bunch of Annie Oakley wannabes that think they will whip out a gun in the heat of the moment and be more effective than someone who initiated the incident.
Excuse me Mr Burglar, I know you have a bat in your hand, but I have a gun in the drawer here and as soon as I get the sleep out of my eyes I’m gonna be better armed than you, so could you just hold that pose for a minute?
Guy gets his brains batted out anyway, but at least he provided a good chance that his kids will find the gun in the drawer and shoot each other to end the watering down of the gene pool that he represents.
Shane Falco says
We grew up in an unincorporated area of the far west Antelope valley. About the same time Julie Church disappeared was when my parents became concerned about the influx of ghetto trash coming up from LA.
My father was on patrol one night and I was a senior in high school. My mother heard a car door slam but we lived fairly far from our closest neighbor who was a fireman at station 33. Mom grabbed the shotgun and some guy pried off our porch screen door. My mother called old 948 sheriff number before 911 and that guy and his buddy kicked down the door. My mother fired off a shot and hit one and they both fled.
Mom called the fireman next door and he came with his handgun and he found the injured guy and held him until the deputies arrived almost 20 minutes later.
My folks still live there with an alarm they use and the shotgun..and others. If somebody breaks into their house again, I’d put money on my folks over a cockroach.
Tim Scott says
Prying off screens and kicking down doors isn’t burglars. That was someone on the hunt with a serious grudge against Foolcos. Wonder how that happened. Were you already a total jerk even then?
Susan B says
Same old Tim Scott and SMHX2 always calling anyone who doesn’t agree with their liberal ideas names. That’s the small tiny closed mind that the libs seem to always prove they have. I know you forget but this is America where we have freedom of speech and a posing ideas. Stop the propaganda of claiming the other side are racist. That is a tired lie you guys have been pushing for years. A criminal is a criminal, just as a illegal alien is a illegal alien no matter how you try to spin it.
Laughing says
It was the approach taken on a coworkers home a couple weeks ago. Large sledge to bust the security screen open and then kick in the interior door.
Tim Scott says
LOL…Susan B, trying to portray Foolco as representative of “everyone” probably hurts his arrogant elitist feelings more than anything I could say to him. I call him names, because he has proven that he doesn’t merit any better.
As to the rest of your random nonsense, you certainly have a right to say it, but it just proves that people would be just as well served to see your name on it and skip it as drivel. It isn’t a “tiny closed mind” that makes me laugh at your “a posing” ideas. It’s the fact that you are incapable of expressing yourself in anything other than half formed thoughts, false claims about my motives, and non sequiturs. Other than being close to your heart what does racism have to do with the discussion at hand? How about “illegals”?
You just want to attack in some way, even if it doesn’t have anything to do with the topic at hand, probably because you have felt belittled so often under all your various screen names. What you don’t ever seem to catch on to is that you bring that belittling upon yourself with your behavior. It isn’t “the liberals” fault that you constantly expose yourself as incapable of carrying an argument.
Tim Scott says
@Laughing…in the middle of the night? That’s a (barely) reasonable strategy during the day if the burglar had researched enough to know that the entire block were latchkeyed, but that kind of entry is going to draw a response far too quickly to be profitable, generally. Unless your coworker is known for leaving a pile of cash right next to the door.
It seems like so many people operate in this concept of “stupid criminals that just want to do harm.” Criminals want to PROFIT from their crimes, not just see how quickly they can get caught.
Laughing says
Tim, in the AV a majority of the criminal burglaries are not done by professionals. The average burglary is perpetrated by a drug abuser or an inexperienced person. Some have lucky streaks but most will be caught unless they move on to a new area.
Tim Scott says
A drug abuser using break ins to support their habit is the definition of a professional looking to profit from their crimes. They may be a beginner, and their drug abuse may limit their ability to plan, but they will still be motivated by making a return and not getting caught.
Most “I’m a first timer looking to support my drug habit” burglars break into places they know well, like their relatives’ or friends’ houses. They know what they are looking to steal and where to find it, and they have a pretty good idea when to find the house empty.
Then they move on to neighbors they don’t know as well. They still have a pretty good sense for when to find the house empty. But at that point the neighborhood will usually have a pretty good idea who it is so they will either get caught or they will expand into new territory…where they probably get caught because they don’t know enough about the area.
At the end of the day, if you regularly have people in your house that are close to that edge, and they see stuff that might be worth the effort to steal, you should expect that at some point they might come looking to steal it. But if people are smashing their way into your house loudly and violently in the middle of the night when you are almost certainly there they are NOT really looking to steal stuff…they are looking for you.
Tim Scott says
You shouldn’t have stopped growing up when you left. You’re still the same arrogant punk that you were in high school.
Shane Falco says
Well, I’ve shot somebody too, as has my father (three times) by brothers, a cousin and uncle.
I don’t think it’s arrogance if you can back it up with a clean shoot. If people wouldn’t commit crime and try to victimize others, lawful gun owners and police officers wouldn’t have to shoot them.
Tim Scott says
Is this where I’m supposed to swoon and say “You got to shoot somebody? That is so COOL!” Hold your breath.
SMHX2 says
Cry me a river @susan b, you lost me when you began commenting about defending criminals and about the undocumented beings that cause you absolutely no harm. Dumbaxx says “what?” LOL
Laughing says
Unless of course the burglar is confronted by a cat/dog which is an early noisy alarm. Giving the homeowner a minute or two. If the thief does not know the layout, that is a few more seconds to minutes. It can add up quickly without the odd ‘always’ awake status of a PTSD suffer or other sleepless issues many suffer anyway.
Tim Scott says
The burglar confronted by a dog probably didn’t come in in the first place. Unless there is something really attractive about the particular house, like a known stash of cash, it’s just way easier to find a different house with no dog.
Meanwhile, fair bet that anyone “prying off a porch screen door” in the middle of the night isn’t really a burglar. Too noisy, and again easier to just find another house. That kind of assault is more likely motivated by hatred of Foolcos, which I can certainly understand. Your whole scared clan should have upped stakes for somewhere you could all feel more comfortable…maybe a bunker in the Antarctic or something would ease the paranoia.
SMHX2 says
@Tim Scott, it’s quite hilarious to see how people such as Shame Foolco are completely terrified of “ghetto trash” AKA brown and black people. They can own a closet full of weapons, yet they are the most cowardly individuals around. Now we know where he gets his useless paranoia from…mommy and daddy. He reminds me of his man-baby president elect Cheeto Bandido. LOL
Shane Falco says
Well, I go into burning buildings for a living so I don’t see “fear” being the issue.
I’m sure you lock your door when you leave the house, right? Lock the doors at night? Lock your car door when you are out? I’m sure you don’t do it out of fear, you do it because you know there are bad people out there looking to do bad things.
It’s the same mindset as the reasonable legal gun owner. You don’t walk around in fear, you just prepare yourself in the event that somebody challenges that lock on the door, just like the Michelle Egberts client and fellow bottomfeeder that shot Steve Owen.
My folks moved to the AV in the early 50’s and doors/windows were always open at night. In the 70’s and 80’s people moved here from LA and San Fernando trying to get their kids away from the bad apples but it was their kids who were bad apples. More and more people arrested then and now have LA and San Fernando addresses and ties. You can deny the statistics but it doesn’t make it less true.
Tim Scott says
Locked doors are to help ordinary people avoid temptations. Of course i wasn’t raised by a dirty cop, so the whole “the world is full of bad people who deserve to be exploited” bit isn’t ingrained in me the way it is in you Foolco.
Shane Falco says
Well, Tim, ordinary people generally aren’t tempted to burglarize a home or a car.
Unless, as I suspect, in your circle that is considered ordinary. It’s always telling how criminals willl consistently minimize and rationalize criminality in others as a means to excuse their own behaviors.
Seems as though the handyman found a way to always stay in those sewers.
Tim Scott says
LOL…what’s the matter Shane? A good honest job in the construction trades not good enough for you?
I guess it doesn’t meet the standards of a dirty cop from a whole clan of dirty cops. After all, without a badge and a gun and a whole world of “bad people” to exploit why even bother with a job? Bet The Don was disappointed when you got drummed out for being too dirty for even the Baca/Tanaka mafia and had to go be a fireman with only one notch on your holster.
Isn’t it amazing how the chief of the NYPD says 95% of his officers go a whole career without having to fire their weapon at anyone, yet the entire Foolco clan has managed to find a way to justify at least one shooting. Gotta make your bones to sit at the dinner table with The Don, right Shane?
Just bad luck, eh Foolco?
Shane Falco says
It’s always somewhat comical to me when I read your rants Tim. I don’t hate construction trades at all. We own a side construction business with anywhere from 15-20 employees from the Antelope Valley and Santa Clarita. Our business is 25 years old and successful.
Like everything else you write about my family, me, police officers and deputies in general, it’s always wrong and yet entertaining just how filled with hate and ignorance you are.
Keep doin’ you, Tim. Keep do
Tim Scott says
Sure Shane…thing is that I’m actually just using information you provide.
You’re the one who proudly boasted about how every Foolco has shot someone, and The Don has three.
Gowchong says
I’ve been following the stream where Tim is saying that burglars have the upper hand. While in principal I agree, I’d like to see hard stats that back that up.
What this says is home defenders need more training. There are a few classes offered in proper weapon handling. If one in interested, contact a local gun shop and they will be more than happy to give you all the information you need.
While I have not attended any of these local classes, I can say with 100% confidence that I am prepared. I spent 11 years in the military, with two in combat, the rest in constant training in urban warfare and what was called “stealth combat.” I won’t go into detail.
Granted, I have a dog I train with constantly, and a burglar probably wouldn’t make it to the porch, but in the event that the individual wishing to breach my security still attempts and gets past my dog, I am armed and capable. My handgun is by my side when I am inside the walls of my house.
I am not law enforcement. I’m a school teacher. Mild mannered, or as my students describe me, “chill.”
So Tim can’t classify me as a blood thirsty Annie Oakley wannabe. I am the antithesis of that.
And finally (whew) I do not want to take another person’s life. That would be my absolute last resort. As a combat veteran, it was never my joy to sight down on another human being and pull the trigger. The taking of another human life will be heavy on my heart and mind until the day I die. It is nothing I smirk about. In combat, when I sighted down and pulled, it was to protect the lives of my Marines and preserve my own life. I hope to God Almighty that I never have to do that again. But I will to protect the life of my Wife and preserve my own life, just like in combat. Because, bottom line, that’s what it is equivalent to.
callingitasitis says
Very strange story line by LASD not to KNOW what a parolee is on parole or prior convictions. I would bet it is for prior property crime. Usually property crimes for money for ????????????? . I also bet he had a juvenile record also.
Magnetlady says
Too bad this ”25 yr. old Burglar” didn’t think he’d get caught… He’s lucky no one was home, with a GUN to stop him….It would be interesting to know what he was on PAROLE for as well…
ANNON says
HAHAHAHAHAH DOUCHE WENT DOWN LOL.