Six Providence men arraigned on multi-thousand-dollar Home Depot product thefts

BOSTON, December 15, 2022 — Six individuals from Providence were arraigned Monday at West Roxbury BMC for walking out of the Home Depot on VFW Parkway with nearly $18,000 worth of merchandise, District Attorney Kevin Hayden announced.

JOSE PIRIR, 37, ABRAHAM DAYGER-ENRIQUE, 23, and MIGUEL PEREZ, 36, are charged with larceny over $1200. Judge Katheen Coffey ordered them held in lieu of $1,000 bail with the requirement to stay away from all Home Depots.

FRANCLIN SALAS, 25, JONATHAN AMPEREZ-PEREZ, 31, and ABNER PEREZ, 29, face the same charge. Judge Coffey ordered them held in lieu of $1,500 bail with the requirement to stay away from all Home Depots.

The six men will return to court January 13 for a pre-trial hearing.

Assistant District Attorney Colleen Page said that on Friday, December 9 at 6:30 a.m., Boston police officers responded to Home Depot at VFW Parkway. Officers spoke the Home Depot loss prevention officer. They were told that on the morning before, the six men took a Home Depot bathtub box and filled it with electrical wire, about 120 spools, and left the store after paying for the bathtubs only. The value of the items totaled $17,989, and the men were back in the store again. The CCTV saw the men taking two kitchen cabinets and loading them with more electrical wire. In addition, officers saw a white van waiting in the parking lot, with plates that traced back to a different vehicle. Pirir was in the driver’s seat and Dayger-Enrique was in the back. Both men were seen on the CCTV stealing items from Home Depot on December 8.

The four other men were inside the store, loading up the cabinets with more electrical wire, concealing the wire inside the kitchen cabinet boxes, and then sealing the boxes. The men were seen heading to the registers to pay for the boxes. As police approached, the men abandoned the boxes and ran to different exits. The person at the line paying for the merchandise was Amperez-Perez, and he had the truck keys. The items, which totaled $13,518.99, were returned to Home Depot.

As search of the van produced Home Depot receipts from West Roxbury, Mansfield, Attleboro, and Manchester, N.H. 

“This is no minor shoplifting operation. These men targeted specific products in large quantities and followed a patterned method for removing those items from the store without payment.  This is the type of retail larceny that can drive stores out of communities and harm residents by removing convenient shopping options for them,” Hayden said.

James Borghesani, Chief of Communications