The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is seeking help in identifying two men involved in an attack last Friday on a Walmart store employee.
The attack took place at the Walmart at 13240 W. Coalmine Ave. when three shoplifters left the garden center pushing a shopping cart containing stolen merchandise, according to Mark Techmeyer, spokesman for the sheriff’s office.
The Walmart employee attempted to stop the trio when the merchandise in the cart triggered an alarm as they left through a store exit.
One of the men hit the employee in the head, knocking him face-first into the shopping cart and onto the ground, said Techmeyer. The employee was seriously injured.
Two men have been arrested in the incident. They are Joe David Lucero, 34, and Jose Antonio Cruz, 19.
A third man who was in the store is still being sought, as is a fourth man who was driving the getaway car.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is asking anyone with information about either the third person seen in the store, or the getaway driver, to call the Sheriff’s Office tip line at 303-271-5612.
Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939 or hpankratz@denverpost.com.
