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WEBVTT TENDS TO AFFECT CHILDREN MORE, WHEREAS LAST YEAR’S STRAIN AFFECTED ADULTS. GULSTAN: TONIGHT, SACRAMENTO PUBLIC LIBRARY EXPLAINING HOW THEY HELPED POLICE FIND A SERIAL BOOK THIEF. DEPUTIES SAY THE FAIR OAKS BRANCH NOTICED A MAN TAKE SEVERAL BOOKS EARLIER THIS MONTH WITHOUT CHECKING ANY OUT. A CHECK OF THEIR INVENTORY FOUND A LARGE NUMBER OF MISSING BOOKS AND DVDS. DEPUTIES SERVED A SEARCH WARRANT AT A HOME, WHERE THEY FOUND ALL THIS. MORE THAN 2600 BOOKS, MORE THAN 3800 DVDS, AND ALL OF IT BELONGED TO THE SACRAMENTO PUBLIC LIBRARY. DEPUTIES SAY IT WAS OVER $100,000 WORTH OF PROPERTY. THE LIBRARY DIRECTOR SAYS, HER TEAM DID SOME SERIOUS INVESTIGATIVE WORK TO HELP POLICE MAKE AN ARREST. >> THEY NOTICED SOME ITEMS SOME ITEMS WERE MISSING INVENTORY -- SOME ITEMS CAP SHOWING UP MISSING. WE SHOWED THEM -- WE CALL THEM THE SUPER SLEUTHS. THEY NOTICED SOME PATTERNS. THEN THEY BEGAN LOOKING AT PATTERNS OF USAGE. AND DISCOVERED THAT A LOT OF ITEMS WERE MISSING OUT OF CERTAIN DAYS OF THE WEEK. BEGAN FOLLOWING THAT. WHICH LED THEM TO LOOKING AT VIDEO FOOTAGE WHICH IS PRETTY TIME-CONSUMING. FOUND SOMEBODY WHO LOOKED LIKE A LIKELY PERSON, REACHED OUT TO THE SACRAMENTO COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, AND THE REST IS KIND OF HISTOR

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Sheriff's deputies discovered more than 2,500 stolen books and nearly 4,000 swiped DVDs at a man's Fair Oaks home after Sacramento Public Library staff noticed items were going missing, authorities said Thursday. Shahin Sadighian, 46, of Sacramento, was arrested on felony shoplifting and grand theft charges. He was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail but has since been released on bail, according to a news release from the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department. On Dec. 18, sheriff's deputies went to the Fair Oaks Public Library after a man reportedly took books without going through the standard checkout process. In video surveillance that deputies reviewed, a man was seen putting several books in a backpack but only checking out one book. Separately, during a routine inventory analysis, staff with the Sacramento Public Library system noticed a "higher than normal number of items missing from its Fair Oaks location," according to the Sheriff's Department. "Losses included not only books but also numerous DVDs and it was believed the losses were attributed to the same person."The Sheriff's Department said it then worked with the library system to identify Sadighian.Deputies served a search warrant at Sadighian's Fair Oaks home Wednesday and found 2,689 stolen books and 3,846 stolen DVDs -- all of which had Sacramento Public Library labeling, the Sheriff's Department said. The recovered property was valued at more than $100,000, authorities said.