It started out as an innocent conversation: Two people approached a woman Sunday afternoon in Bloomington and began to ask her about her Doberman pinscher puppy, Blue.
The woman chatted with the man and woman, talking about dogs and dog care. The woman that had approached asked if she could hold Blue. Blue’s owner agreed and the three continued their conversation, near Valley Boulevard and Alder Avenue. The man asked Blue’s owner for information, so she reached into her car to get a card to give them.
But when she looked up, the two were running away with Blue, then getting into a waiting vehicle, the puppy’s owner told deputies from the Fontana station of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department.
Investigation by deputies identified a potential female suspect, who the puppy’s owner identified as one of the suspects who had stolen Blue. Both suspects were at the female suspect’s residence, alongside Blue.
Both suspects were arrested on suspicion of grand theft and booked into the West Valley Detention Center. They were a woman, 21, and a man, 18, both from San Bernardino.
Blue was returned to his owners, a woman and her child, the Sheriff’s Department said in a Monday news release.
