A suspect in a cell phone theft in Grass Valley was apparently not satisfied with getting away. Police Sergeant Clint Lovelady says 29-year-old Gabriel Corral was reported to have stolen the cell phone, late Tuesday night, from an employee of a store on Freeman Lane. It had been sitting on a counter. But then Corral reportedly called the store and said he’d return the phone, in exchange for a new phone…

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Lovelady says the department was not aware of the arrangement…

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Corral was booked on charges that included extortion and grand theft. He was also charged with misdemeanor possession of a small, user amount of methamphetamine. And Lovelady says Corral had also hidden a hypodermic needle in his mouth while being booked.