The man featured in the "selfie" portrait posted by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has come forward on Thursday to clear his name with regard his purported connection to a burglary reported by a Southern California victim last July. His presumed involvement to the break-in rooted from the fact that his pictures, along with shots including a female companion, were uploaded online into the robbery victim's cloud account. According to reports from the aforementioned incident, electronic gadgets were among the things stolen from the Santa Clarita woman's home.  

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Authorities disclosed that the man in the pictures sought the detectives assigned to the case in an effort to put an end to rumors pertaining to his and his girlfriend's involvement to the robbery. Upon learning of his son's involvement with the burglary investigation, Larry Beltran immediately went to speak to the deputies. He said that his son, Larry Beltran, Jr., clearly bought a stolen cellphone, which caused his pictures to be uploaded to the victim's cloud account.

"We are here trying to do the right thing," the father shared. "I'm just upset that everybody is calling me saying 'Your son is on the news, your son did this.' Here I am at the station and they're telling me they don't know anything about it," he added. The pictures were said to have made their rounds in various social media platforms following their release by the Santa Clarita Valley station on Wednesday.

Although investigators did not release the names of the couple, Beltran, Jr. confirmed in KNBC-TV that it was him and his girlfriend in the infamous "pillow photo". "It's embarrassing," Beltran stated. "I had no idea it would be all over the news or anything. That was just between me and my girlfriend," he added. Moreover, Beltran expressed his frustration over the treatment he received after seeking the help of detectives. "I come in and they gave me the runaround," he shared. Sources reveal that the police told father and son to simply return the next day as the detectives working on the case already went home. According to Angie Cabrera, the man's aunt, she was the one who bought the gadget. She said she was able to buy two gadgets at a swap meet for $80. "I thought I got a good deal, but I didn't know I put my nephew in a bad situation," she said in the interview.

To date, the deputies have not released any comment on whether Beltran, Jr. and his girlfriend are considered persons of interest.

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