Man Sentenced By Sonoma County Judge In Retail Theft Spree Across Northern CA

SONOMA COUNTY, CA — A man convicted in a spree of retail thefts targeting 11 Northern California counties over two years was sentenced to prison on Wednesday, authorities said.

In November, Shawn Naputi pleaded no contest to six counts of felony theft in Sonoma County in exchange for a prison term of five years and four months, the Sonoma County District Attorney said in a press release.

Naputi will serve two years in custody, and the remainder on mandatory supervision, according to the Sonoma County District Attorney's office, which prosecuted the thefts under one criminal complaint.

Naputi was originally charged with 56 counts of felony theft after an investigation that started in May 2024, after he was seen taking items from a Friedman's Home Improvement store in Santa Rosa. Employees told Sonoma County Sheriff's deputies that Naputi had stolen from the store seven other times since January 2024.

An organized retail theft unit of the DA's Office, which took over the investigation, said Naputi was responsible for more than 80 thefts totaling $80,000 from multiple retailers spanning from the Bay Area to the Sacramento area between October 2023 and May 2025.

The stores included Best Buy, Boot Barn, Dick's Sporting Goods, Friedman's Home Improvement, Home Depot, Kohl's, Lowe's, and REI, prosecutors said, in the counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Placer, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Sacramento, San Francisco, Solano, Sonoma, and Yolo.