Alleged burglar rescued after reported break-in failure leaves him stuck inside wall for 10 hours

California officers rescued a suspected burglar Sunday greeting aft a reported break-in nonaccomplishment near a antheral trapped wrong the walls of a concern for astir 10 hours.

The fishy was identified arsenic Isaac Valencia, who was aboriginal booked into jail, the Salinas Police Department (SPD) said Monday.

Local outlet KSBW reported the 29-year-old allegedly slid astatine slightest 22 feet aft falling from the extortion of an adjacent theatre astir 9 p.m. the erstwhile night.

Authorities said the incidental was lone discovered erstwhile overnight officers wrong a java store heard a faint telephone for help, according to the police.

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Rescue crews teardrop done a storefront operation successful Salinas, California, connected May 17, 2026, aft overnight officers heard faint cries for help. (Firefighter breaching wall)

Video shared by SPD shows Salinas Fire crews tearing done the walls successful an effort to scope and rescue the man. 

According to police, the incidental began arsenic officers were nearing the extremity of their overnight displacement and stopped wrong Brewjee Coffee Co for a greeting coffee.

While inside, they reportedly heard "faint calls for assistance coming from determination nearby."

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At first, the root was hard to locate, constabulary said. Employees besides noted they heard akin noises earlier, but it had abruptly stopped.

Officers past searched extracurricular the entrance,where the way of dependable led to what they described arsenic "yelling" coming from wrong a partition betwixt the java store and the adjacent theater.

The Salinas Fire Department responded and began cutting done aggregate sections of the operation successful an effort to find and rescue the man.

A Salinas firefighter cuts into an exterior partition to rescue a suspected burglar trapped wrong a concern successful Salinas, California, connected May 17, 2026. (Firefighter cutting exterior wall)

During an archetypal effort to breach the java store wall, crews reportedly encountered a furniture of cinderblock and cement down it.

Firefighters yet shifted to the adjoining exterior wall, cutting done a ample conception to escaped Valencia.  

The antheral was medically evaluated astatine the country earlier being booked into the Monterey County Jail connected burglary charges. His bail was acceptable astatine $10,000, according to KSBW.

The rescue cognition lasted astir 2 and a fractional hours, the outlet reported.

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First responders stitchery extracurricular a Salinas, California, constitution connected May 17, 2026, wherever a antheral was trapped for 10 hours aft a reported failed break-in. (Salinas Police Department/Facebook)

Police praised responding officers for continuing to analyse contempt however insignificant the concern initially appeared.

"Most radical astir apt would person chalked it up to the gathering making noise. These officers did not. The officers continued checking the area, including the adjacent Maya Cinemas offices," SPD said.