Petaluma police seeking shoplifting suspect

Petaluma police Wednesday released surveillance photos of a man suspected of stealing from Friedman’s Home Improvement store.

A clerk at the North McDowell Boulevard store called police at 5:58 p.m. Tuesday and reported that a man put a power tool and its accessories into a cart and walked out of the store through an emergency exit without buying them, according to a Petaluma police news release. The man got into an idling van and was driven away, police said.

The suspect was described as a white man between 30 and 35 years old, about six feet tall and 240 pounds with dark hair and a trimmed beard and mustache, according to police. He was wearing a light baseball cap with a dark brim, a white polo-style shirt with dark stripes, dark shorts and black-and-white Converse shoes.

The vehicle was an older white Dodge Caravan with a missing hub cap on the front passenger side tire and a broken rear latch handle.

Anyone with information about the case can call Petaluma Police Officer A. Oliveira at 781-1220.

You can reach Staff Writer Julie Johnson at 521-5220 or julie.johnson@pressdemocrat.com. On Twitter @jjpressdem.