San Antonio police say three people — Maria Elena Guevara, Rogelio Saldana and Roland Saldana — were arrested after an alleged organized theft at a Home Depot where officers found fake receipts, a plugged-in printer and roughly $1,051.80 in unpaid merchandise; arrests, bookings and bond activity tied to the case played out in Bexar County last month. The San Antonio Police Department affidavit describes employees spotting a “repeat theft offender” leaving with “high valued store merchandise,” and investigators say the suspects used forged paperwork to try to make the charges go away.
Employees at the Home Depot alerted loss prevention after they noticed a shopper walking out with pricey items without paying. The affidavit points to an organized effort rather than a one-off shoplifter, and that shift in tone changed this from a simple theft to something investigators called planned and coordinated.
SAPD detained 37-year-old Maria Elena Guevara in the store parking lot, where she told officers she had come with others and that a receipt covered the items in the cart. She led police to a parked truck, where officers found 55-year-old Rogelio Saldana and 52-year-old Roland Saldana and took them into custody, according to the affidavit.
When officers inspected the truck, they found a printer plugged into an outlet and receipts with obvious errors. The affidavit notes a receipt stamp that read “completed APR 27 2026” and shows other signs of being phony, like typos and an incorrect barcode that loss prevention flagged as inauthentic.
Investigators say Home Depot’s loss prevention team confirmed the documents were fake after looking closely at the paper trail. Police say Guevara’s purse also held additional receipts showing the same kinds of mistakes, which pointed toward an intentional scheme to forge sales paperwork and extract merchandise without proper payment.
The affidavit lists the total value of the goods taken as $1,051.80, and court documents show state jail felony counts for multiple offenses. Arrest records obtained by local authorities identify organized retail theft and forgery among the principal charges being pursued against the three defendants.
Booking logs show Guevara and Roland Saldana were processed into the Bexar County Adult Detention Center on April 28, and Roland was initially charged with organized retail theft in the $750-$2,500 range before being released on bond the next day. After that release, additional charges — including forgery and evading arrest — were added to Roland Saldana’s file, and records indicate he was booked again on May 14 and bonded out on May 15.
Maria Elena Guevara faces forgery and engaging in organized criminal activity charges and posted bond on May 9, according to jail records. Rogelio Saldana was not booked until May 19 and faces organized retail theft and forgery charges as well, with his booking occurring more than three weeks after the initial arrests.
As of Thursday afternoon, Rogelio Saldana remains behind bars, while the other two have cycled through bond and additional processing. The case now moves through the legal system in Bexar County, where prosecutors will weigh the evidence tied to the forged receipts, the printer found in the vehicle and the sequence of events described in the police affidavit.
