Overview
- Salinas officers getting coffee Sunday morning at Brewjee traced faint cries to the shared wall with Maya Cinemas and found a man trapped inside.
- Fire crews cut through the coffee shop’s wall and an inner cinderblock-and-cement layer in a roughly two-hour operation to reach Isaac Valencia.
- Authorities said he fell from the theater roof near the sign and slid about 22 feet into a narrow space, and he told responders he had been stuck since about 9 p.m.
- After a medical evaluation, Valencia was booked into Monterey County Jail on suspicion of burglary with bail set at $10,000.
- By Tuesday evening, jail records no longer listed him in custody, and police have not detailed how he entered the wall or the alleged offense.