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WEBVTT MIKE?MIKE: NOT ONLY DO POLICE BELIEVETHE SUSPECT WAS IMPERSONATING AWORKER AT THIS HOME DEPOT, BUTTHEY ALSO SAY HE TRIED TO AVOIDTHEM WHEN OFFICERS RESPONDEDON SATURDAY MORNING, POLICE SAY53-YEAR-OLD BERNARDO CALANA OFHAVERHILL, MASSACHUSETTS WALKEDINTO THE STORE WEARING THISORANGE HOME DEPOT VEST WITH THENAME SHANNON AND FLOWERS DRAWNON IT.HE ALLEGEDLY LOADED TWO AIRCONDITIONER ONTO HIS PICKUP THENWENT BACK INSIDE AND A MANAGERNOTICED HIS APRON BECAUSE THEREIS NO EMPLOYEE HERE NAMEDSHANNOTHEY CALLED POLICE, BUT OFFICERSCOULD NOT FIND HIM.SO THEY LEFT, LEAVING ONEUNMARKED CRUISER IN THE PARKINGLOT.THAT'S WHEN HE WENT BACK TO HISTRUCK.WHEN POLICE CONFRONTED HIM THEYSAY HE DENIED WHAT HAPPENED BUFOUND THE HOME DEPOT VEST IN HISBACK POCKE>> THIS IS A UNIQUE CASE.THERE'S A LOT OF THOUGHT BEHINDIT.IT PROVES THAT THIS MAN SAT ANDTHOUGHT IF I PUT ON AN APRON, NOON IS GOING TO RECOGNIZE MEGOING THROUGH THE STORE ANDTRYING TO TAKE SOMETHING OUT.THEY'RE GOING TO THINK I'M ANEMPLOYEE.AND AT FIRST, THEY DID. MIKE: HE WAS RELEASED ON $500PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE BAIL ANDWILL BE ARRAIGNED IN JULY.HE'S ALSO NOT SUPPOSED TO GO

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A Massachusetts man posed as a Home Depot employee over the weekend to steal air conditioners in Plaistow, police said. Police said the man wore a store apron to disguise himself, but that's also what gave him away. Bernardo Calana, 53, of Haverhill, was arrested Saturday morning. Police said Calana was wearing an orange Home Depot apron with the name "Shannon" and flowers drawn on it. Calana loaded two air conditioners into his pickup truck and went back inside the store, police said. A manager noticed the apron and called police, telling them that no one named Shannon worked in the store, police said."It's very unusual. This is a unique case," Officer Patrick Schiavone said. "There's a lot of thought behind it. It proves that this man sat and thought, 'Gee, if I put on an apron, no one's going to recognize me going through the store and trying to take something out. They're going to think I'm an employee.' And at first, they did."Initially, officers couldn't find Calana, so they left, leaving an unmarked cruiser in the parking lot."My belief is he was actually in the parking lot walking around, watching us the whole time that we were looking for him," Schiavone said.Police rushed back when Calana returned to his truck and arrested him."He claimed it wasn't his trcu, this that and the other thing. Knew nothing about air conditioners," Schiavone said.Officials said he denied posing as an employee, but police found the Home Depot apron in his back pocket."There was no explanation as to why. I did ask him where he got the apron. He told me he's had it for a while but wouldn't explain anything further than that," Schiavone said. Calana was released on $500 personal recognizance bail and will be arraigned in July. He was ordered to not go into any Home Depot store.