Home Depot Guard Mourned by Community After Fatal Shooting
Shooter: Licensed Security Guard With Criminal Past - Was Shoplifter & Shooter

(Update) Pleasanton, CA: Home Depot guard fatally shot by shoplifter; city grieves
A Home Depot employee set to marry this summer was fatally shot when he confronted a suspected shoplifter inside a store on Tuesday, according to authorities.

Blake Mohs, 26, was working at the home-improvement store when he confronted a woman he suspected of shoplifting, according to a release from Pleasanton police. The woman resisted and shot him; he was taken to a hospital, where he later died.

After the shooting, police said, the woman ran to a getaway car and fled along with the driver. After alerts were sent to nearby law-enforcement agencies with a suspect and vehicle description, the pair were detained by Alameda County sheriff's deputies in East Oakland.

The woman was identified Wednesday by Pleasanton police as Benicia Knapps, 32. Knapps, a licensed security guard with a criminal history involving theft, had attempted to steal a phone charger, according to witnesses.

The man and suspected driver is David Guillory, 31, police said. Alameda County jail records showed Guillory in custody Wednesday on suspicion of child abuse, as well as evading and obstructing police.

In a statement Tuesday evening, a Pleasanton police spokesperson said dispatchers received a call around 2:15 p.m. reporting a man bleeding inside the store. Officers responded within minutes, finding the victim and providing aid before first responders took him to a hospital.

Authorities described Mohs as a Tri-Valley resident who planned to get married this summer. He was a well-known member of the community who participated in community youth programs.

Home Depot has long been targeted by thieves seeking to steal some of the high-value equipment and supplies available at the store. In 2019, the retailer began paying police at overtime costs - at least $2.1 million by 2021 - in order to have Oakland officers stand post at its store near High Street. mercurynews.com  sfchronicle.com  dailymail.co.uk


The Brookings Institute Research Report
Released April 3, 2023, Updated April 7th., 2023

Property Crimes - The Leading Driver of Urban America's Crime Surge - Up 34.7% Between 2019 and 2022 in the four city research.

'The geography of crime in four U.S. cities: Perceptions and reality'
New York, Chicago, Seattle, and Philadelphia.

Small business owners and major retailers alike described increased property crime downtown as a major barrier to keeping their business open.

Citywide crime increased between 2019 and 2022, driven primarily by property crimes-but downtowns accounted for a very small share of these increases.

Faced with slow-recovering urban cores and predictions of an "urban doom loop," many pundits and urban observers are returning to a playbook not fully deployed since the 1990s-pointing to public safety as the primary cause of a host of complex and interconnected issues, from office closures to public transit budget shortfalls to the broader decline of center cities.

Whether or not crime actually is up in central city business districts, widespread fear of crime-driven in no small part by relentless media coverage-certainly is. This is forcing urban leaders to simultaneously confront rising public safety concerns while grappling with the numerous economic, social, and civic aftershocks of an enormously disruptive three years. Unfortunately, many of these aftershocks-such as emptier streets and vacant storefronts-are the very same issues that negatively impact perceptions of safety in the first place.

As local leaders seek to rebuild safe and vibrant downtowns, they must do so without letting the perceptions and politics of crime drive policy and practice. This research brief aims to equip leaders with the evidence to do just that by: 1) presenting findings from nearly 100 interviews in four large U.S. cities (New York, Chicago, Seattle, and Philadelphia) on perceptions of crime; 2) providing spatial analysis of the geography of crime within these four cities; and 3) offering place-specific, forward-looking policy and practice solutions to chart a future in which all residents can feel-and actually be-safe regardless of where they live and work.

Brookings Metro's Future of Downtowns project: This report is part of a larger mixed-methods research project that seeks to understand the future of American urban cores through interviews, spatial data analysis, and direct engagement with local leaders in New York, Chicago, Seattle, and Philadelphia. brookings.edu

Editor's Note: For the serious executives. See the data, evidence, influencers, trends, spatial analysis, and the actual numbers that show property crimes is the root driver of this national crime surge, supporting and proving exactly why we need federal ORC legislation. It's really the most definitive and creditable research this writer has seen to date. Describing and defining the current state and data impacting downtown recovery in the nation's four largest cities. It will provide you with valuable information and insight for your C-Suite discussions. -Gus Downing

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New California Legislation to Fix Prop 47 & Battle Rampant Retail Theft
New bill tackling retail theft in Calif. would hold repeat offenders accountable

The bill also allows those charged with petty theft with prior convictions to participate in a diversion program.

A proposed bill would hold repeat offenders of organized retail theft in California more accountable and create a diversion program to help stop the cycle.

Assembly Bill (AB) 1708 would allow either a felony or misdemeanor charge for any person who has two or more convictions for theft-related offenses and who is subsequently convicted of petty theft or shoplifting.

The bill also allows those charged with petty theft with prior convictions to participate in a diversion program for substance abuse and mental health treatment.

Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi (D-Torrance) held a press conference on Tuesday alongside the League of California Cities, the California Retailers Association, California Police Chiefs Association, and the California District Attorneys Association to push the bill.

"I am introducing Assembly Bill 1708, which is a common sense fix to Proposition 47, to combat rampant retail theft happening throughout the state and our communities," said Muratsuchi.

Prop 47, which was approved by voters in 2014, raised the dollar amount of property stolen to almost $1,000 in order to be charged with a felony. AB 1708 would stiffen the penalty for repeat offenders, no matter the dollar amount.

A report by the National Retail Federation said retail theft accounts for nearly $30 billion in economic loss per year and that many of these incidents can be traced back to repeat offenders.

Muratsuchi's office said California is recognized as a "hot spot" for organized retail crime. The National Retail Foundation notes that three of the top 10 cities for retail crime are in California with Los Angeles taking the top spot. abc7.com


Fighting ORC is Key to Restoring Law & Order in San Francisco
In SF, crime threatens city's future. Here's how we can help people feel safe.

San Francisco won't fully recover from the economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic unless city leaders improve the perception and reality surrounding crime.

As we recover from the economic and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, San Francisco needs resurgent tourism, businesses reopening, residents staying in the city and newcomers moving in. None of this will happen if San Francisco's leadership can't get public safety right.

6 ways SF city leaders can improve public safety

Now, other elected officials such as the mayor and the Board of Supervisors must act to improve public safety. Here are six steps to ensure public safety now:

• Tackle organized retail theft. Organized retail theft caused stores like Walgreens and Whole Foods to close in downtown San Francisco. These crimes often turn violent: A supermarket security guard was shot in my district and another security guard in Japantown was killed after an armed encounter. We must take these crimes seriously and keep up the pressure to disrupt these criminal rings that harm our businesses, workers and shoppers

• Fully fund our police department through a voter-approved charter amendment for full staffing. Since 2020, there has been a dangerous drop in the number of police officers, begun by $120 million in budget cuts Mayor Breed implemented.

• Divert lower priority calls to other agencies and invest in proven strategies that prevent crime in the first place.

• Properly address untreated mental health challenges outside of the criminal justice system.

• Ensure our 911 dispatch system works.

• Prioritize ending hate crimes. usatoday.com


Emboldened Criminals + Fewer Cops = Surging Crime
Op-Ed: Undeterred Criminals Plus Demoralized Cops Equals More Crime
Homicides are, in fact, down in Chicago, but they remain at some of the highest rates since the 1990s, and overall crime spiked by 41 percent between 2021 and 2022. Last weekend alone, mass hooliganism overwhelmed Chicago's downtown while 11 people were killed and 26 wounded in shootings across the city.

Maybe there's a lesson in this, simple and old-fashioned as it may seem. When bad guys walk free and brave cops have to fear for their jobs for doing their jobs, crime tends to go up.

A similar dynamic is playing out in other big cities, too. Police morale is abysmal. One way in which this fact registers is in high levels of voluntary resignations and early retirements, leading to critical staffing shortages. As of mid-March, New Orleans had 944 police officers - down from 1,200 just three years ago, despite increased recruitment efforts. Last year the city registered a 100 percent increase in shootings over 2019. Fewer cops; more crime: Who would have thought?

New Orleans isn't alone. A recent academic analysis found that 11 out of the 14 cities it studied suffered from higher-than-expected losses to their police after the George Floyd protests of 2020, with Seattle losing the highest proportion of its force.

Then there's the other side: The growing sense of impunity among the criminally inclined.

In Chicago, the proportion of crimes reported that resulted in arrest, which stood at nearly 31 percent in 2005, fell to 12.3 percent in 2021, according to an analysis last year by The Chicago Sun-Times. Even that may be an undercount, since fewer crimes in the city are being reported both to and by the police.

In New York, where major crimes rose by 22 percent last year, complaints of shoplifting have nearly doubled over the past five years - while the arrest rate since 2017 fell by almost half.

In other words, lax enforcement when it comes to petty criminality has led to big-time criminality. And the consequence of supposedly "victimless" crimes like shoplifting has created a palpable sense of disorder, menace and fear - each conducive to the anything-goes atmosphere in which crime invariably flourishes. nytimes.com


Businesses & Residents Push Back on Police data - Saying Crimes Go Unreported
Business owners speak out against violent crime in Oakland's Fruitvale district
Frustrated business owners and residents in Oakland's Fruitvale area this week urged city leaders to create a public-safety plan to increase security in the Fruitvale Transit Village and business corridors, where at least three separate shootings occurred in the last month.

The purpose of the meeting, hosted by the nonprofit Unity Council, was for community members to share their experiences with violent crime in the area, suggest solutions and demand more resources from the city.

Small-business owners, youths, longtime residents and community leaders told city officials that they do not feel safe in Fruitvale because of the recent shootings and other crimes they have witnessed. Many people criticized the Police Department for what they described as a slow response to 911 calls.

Last year, Oakland police assigned community resource Officer Ernesto Leyva to patrol Fruitvale in response to an uptick in robberies. About 50 additional officers were deployed in East Oakland this year. In February, the city announced it was sending a team of one sergeant and six officers to patrol different business corridors after businesses expressed concern over robberies.

Rubi Avila, the daughter of the owner of the Churros Mexicanos stand in the Transit Village, said her family business and others were losing customers due to safety concerns. "Customers have got their purses snatched while paying," Avila told The Chronicle. "It's very sad."

Ismael Beltran, the owner of a nearby jewelry store, demanded the city add more security cameras to the area, adding that he's been making that request for at least three years.

"Everybody here is a small business, and we're tired" of the crimes happening every week, he said. sfchronicle.com


Philadelphia's Center City Fashion District Lost a Few Retailers Due to Crime, Vagrancy, and Safety
The move comes amid a larger reshuffling of Center City retail, as brands such as H&M, Wawa, Rite Aid, and Starbucks have retrenched, citing concerns about vagrancy and safety. (There is no indication such matters came into H&M's calculations.)

Officials for the union representing store workers say expiring leases and crime also seem to be factors in Philadelphia. Starbucks and other businesses have had persistent problems with drug users in restrooms, said Paul Levy, president and chief of the Center City District.

Levy said that people using drugs have been occupying restrooms in Center City walk-ins.  inquirer.com


Mall safety is the 'number one priority' in North Jersey. How officials keep shoppers safe
As local police find faster and more efficient ways to respond to shooting incidents in public spaces, mall officials have ramped up their security systems, responses and training.

Dan Kennedy, senior vice president of U.S. security operations at Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, the owners of Garden State Plaza in Paramus, said he stays up at night thinking of worst-case scenarios that could happen at their 25 properties in the United States.

Unibail is an open book when it comes to security. A playbook for "every potential crisis situation" exists, and new ones are created as needed.

"Our goal is for people who visit our properties to see visible security and feel a sense of safety," he said. "They may not know all the behind work, drills and training, but rest assured all of that is in place."

Garden State Plaza has one of the highest security budgets, he said. The mall underwent a massive electronic update, adding cameras to monitor the property around the clock. Training for employees and security at the mall includes what to do in an active shooter situation, fires, power outages, earthquakes and hurricanes.

Every year, all Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield properties undergo a security assessment, and twice a year they conduct active shooter and natural disaster training, Kennedy said. For Garden State Plaza, the security director works closely with Paramus first responders to coordinate training. At least once a month, if not weekly, the general manager and security directors meet with Paramus police to review security plans. northjersey.com


Three More Malls Implement Parental Escort Policies
New Jersey: Under 18? You'll need an adult chaperone on weekend evenings at the Garden State Plaza
Garden State Plaza isn't the first New Jersey mall to implement a policy of this kind. Deptford Mall near Philadelphia has a parental escort policy after 5 p.m. on the weekends for those under 18. American Dream mall in East Rutherford has a parental escort policy for children under age 16 after 4 p.m. northjersey.com


Security Robots. DigiDog. GPS Launchers. Welcome to New York.
Mayor Eric Adams unveiled an array of high-tech security devices that he said the Police Department would use to ensure New Yorkers' safety.

But a year into Mr. Adams's tenure, his public safety agenda remains a work in progress. His first year in office saw a drop in shootings and murders, but an overall rise in major crimes, including burglaries and robberies.

"We are scanning the globe on finding technology that will ensure this city is safe for New Yorkers, visitors and whomever is here in the city," Mr. Adams said. "This is the beginning of a series of rollouts." nytimes.com


45% of San Francisco Residents Surveyed Say They've Had Items Stolen From Them in Past Five Years
A sweeping poll commissioned by The Chronicle drew sobering results: Nearly half of respondents said they were victims of theft in the past five years, while roughly a quarter were physically attacked or threatened. The majority had negative impressions of law enforcement.

It comes at a tense moment, when videos of unchecked shoplifting or unprovoked street violence are ricocheting on social media, and confidence in police and other city leaders is dwindling.

Forty-five percent of people surveyed for the poll said an item was stolen from them within the past five years. Proportionally, Black and mixed-race respondents felt a more severe impact than other groups, with a majority - 54% of Black respondents and 55% of mixed-race respondents - reporting they had suffered theft. Property crime rates were lower for white residents, 43% of whom lost a possession to theft within the time period. sfchronicle.com


41% jump in overdoses in San Francisco in Q1 over LY

Walmart worker jokes he only got a 60-cent raise after catching 373 people shoplifting

Tennessee moves to protect gunmakers from mass shooting lawsuits

Facial Recognition's Global Retail Expansion
Yahoo! Mart Introduces Facial Recognition Payments
Yahoo! Mart, a quick-commerce store operated by Yahoo Japan Corporation, will introduce a self-service point-of-sale (POS) cash register that supports facial recognition payments using PayPay at its Yovogi Uehara store.

The move comes when the retail and distribution sectors face labor shortages and changing user needs and sales patterns due to the declining birthrate, aging population, and ongoing pandemic

Yahoo! Mart, which launched its quick-commerce service in July 2021, is working with Askul and DEMAE-CAN, both members of the Z Holdings Group, to enable customers to pick up products in as little as 15 minutes. In addition, the company aims to improve user convenience by introducing the facial recognition payment system.

To participate in the demonstration, users must register their facial image on a unique website linked to their Yahoo! Japan ID and PayPay account. Customers can then scan the barcode of their product at the self service checkout, select "Face Recognition Payment, and hold up their face for recognition. Upon successful recognition, the payment is completed using the PayPay balance.

Yahoo! Japan plans to use the results of this experiment to develop new services and expand PayPay facial recognition payments to other locations. The company assures users that the facial images registered for recognition and those captured during the authentication process will be kept strictly confidential and will only be used to provide facial recognition and improve its quality with the user's consent. pickool.net


The Retail Impact of Fading Remote Work
Workers returning to offices could mean more trouble for Instacart and other grocery delivery services

Ordering groceries online is losing appeal for busy workers returning in-person to offices.

If you work from home, you're more likely to order groceries online than someone who's commuting to and from work.

That's one of the findings from a recent Morning Consult survey. About 37% of remote workers and 32% of hybrid workers said they did all of their grocery shopping online, Morning Consult reported. But just 19% of employees who reported to an office for the whole week said the same, according to the survey.

Forty percent of in-person workers said that they did "some" of their grocery shopping online. The survey, which was conducted between January and March, surveyed 364 working adults in the US. It asked consumers about their online grocery usage, including both delivery and pick-up orders.

The decline in remote work points to a potential challenge for online grocery services: Before the pandemic, many pitched themselves as time-savers for people who were too busy with work or other obligations to go shopping for food. businessinsider.com


Convenience store sales hit new high in 2022; so do operating costs
Total convenience industry sales totaled $906.1 billion in 2022, of which $302.8 were from in-store sales, according to newly released NACS State of the Industry data for 2022. In-store sales, which rose 9% year-over-year, accounted for 33.4% of industry sales.
 

Costly New Safety Rule: NHTSA puts cost of mandatory side underride guards on all new semi-trailers at up to $1.2B

Barnes & Noble plans over 30 new stores; offers two-tier loyalty program

Inside Apple's first store in India, which spans 20,000 square feet
 

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Director of Inventory Control & LP job posted for Hugo Boss in New York, NY
The Director of Inventory Control & Loss Prevention will manage Inventory Control and Loss Prevention team to prevent loss in inventory and loss in other company assets. They will perform, oversee, plan, and direct all aspects of HB USA and Canada inventory control & loss prevention responsibilities, objectives, and initiatives. careers.hugoboss.com
 

Once You Put Info on ChatGPT You Can't Retrieve it of Delete It
The New Insider Threat/Risk

Cybersecurity leaders reflect on Samsung, ChatGPT incidents
Earlier this month it was reported by The Economist Korea that there were three incidents of entering Samsung Electronics corporate information into ChatGPT. In one incident an employee entered problematic source code and asked for a solution. Another employee entered program code and requested code optimization. A third employee submitted meeting contents in order to prepare meeting minutes.

After the incidents were discovered, company executives and employees were notified and urged to be careful using ChatGPT because once data is put onto Open AI's external servers it is impossible for Samsung to retrieve or delete it. Samsung Electronics is looking to protective measures to prevent future information leaks. However, if it happens again access to ChatGPT may be blocked.

Cybersecurity leaders weigh in

"This incident isn't actually that surprising. People see ChatGPT as a useful tool, which it is, but forget that anything they share with it is shared with it and also all its users. So any proprietary, or even mildly sensitive, or personal, information needs to be scrubbed from interactions with the bot,"

"While it's possible for companies to safely deploy tools that leverage the GPT engine in ways that replicate ChatGPT, they have to do it on their own instances where the data's not shared outside the organization."

Parkin said the incidents at Samsung are an example of people failing Risk Management 101 by exposing sensitive information on an insecure channel.

"ChatGPT can be great for a lot of things, but people need to stop pretending that it's confidential or secure. It's not," he said. "It's not an evil monster that'll destroy the world, but that doesn't mean it can't do some damage when you feed it information it really shouldn't have."

"The unfortunate downside is that an excited user is often also a less cautious one, and one that is more likely to make privacy and security related mistakes, both personally, and on behalf of their employers."

With that in mind, I think it's wise for security leaders to apply the idea of 'building it like it's broken' and presuming that, at least somewhere inside their organization, incidents like the one at Samsung will take place. In terms of prevention, user awareness training is pretty valuable in these early stages, and I imagine that a fresh look at access controls will be on the radar of many organizations over the coming months."

"As a general rule, if you wouldn't share the content you're typing into ChatGPT with someone who works for your company's direct competitor, then do not share it with ChatGPT." securitymagazine.com


Remote Desktops - Weak Password Rules - Exploiting Common Everyday Issues
Top Cloud Security Risks

Weak credentials, unpatched vulnerabilities, malicious OSS packages causing cloud security risks
Security teams take an average of 145 hours to solve alerts, while 80% of cloud alerts are triggered by just 5% of security rules in most environments.

Threat actors are getting more adept at exploiting common, everyday issues in the cloud, including misconfigurations, weak credentials, lack of authentication, unpatched vulnerabilities, and malicious open-source software (OSS) packages. It cited a small set of risky cloud behaviors that are repeatedly observed in organizations, warning that the average time to remediate alerts (roughly six days) provides a lengthy window of opportunity for adversaries to exploit cloud vulnerabilities.

That's according to the Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report, Volume 7.

Excessive cloud permissions, weak authentication, public exposure still prevalent

More than half (53%) of cloud accounts analyzed in last year's research allowed weak password usage and 44% allowed password reuse. This year, Unit 42 found that weak authentication persists. Three-quarters (76%) of organizations don't enforce MFA for console users, 58% don't enforce MFA for root/admin users, and 57% don't enforce symbols in passwords, Unit 42 said.

Publicly exposed cloud resources remain an issue too. Last year, almost two-thirds (62%) of organizations had cloud resources publicly exposed. This year's data found that 73% of organizations have Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) exposed to the public internet, 75% have SSH services exposed, and 41% have database services (e.g., SQL Server, MySQL, Redis) exposed. Further, sensitive data was found to exist in 63% of publicly exposed storage buckets. csoonline.com


Biometrics Inevitably Will Become the Standard For Identity Authentication
58% of Employees Are Open to Abandoning Passwords
To access the unprecedented amounts of data, many companies issue employees multiple logins with passwords. Two-factor authentication tools to protect the integrity of individual accounts are also increasingly being used. However, advancements in biometric technology may make the username and password login system users have become accustomed to obsolete.

In a recent survey of about 2,000 workers by 1Password, over half (58%) said they would be open to trying other ways to log in, including giving up their precious (to some) passwords.

Acceptance of Biometrics and Passkeys

Biometrics for data protection, like face and fingerprint scanning, can eliminate passwords. More than half of respondents (58%) said they already use some biometric technology in the workplace.
Without logins, techniques like biometrics and passkeys - passwords attached to a browser or website application that require no user input - may become more prevalent.

Exposure to this kind of technology also increases the likelihood of employees embracing further advancements in data security. About 87% of those surveyed who use biometric technology in the workplace are already open to using other tools like passkeys. cfo.com


LinkedIn Fights Back Against Surge of Fake Accounts
LinkedIn now allows you to verify your workplace
To combat the surge of fake LinkedIn accounts in recent years, Microsoft has introduced Entra Verified ID, a new feature that allows users to verify their workplace on the business-focused social media platform.

With Entra Verified ID, organizations can create customized digital employee IDs that employees can use to prove their current employment with the firm.

LinkedIn users can access the workplace verification option on their profile, retrieve their digital employee ID, and then share it on their LinkedIn profile.

"Verified ID is built on open standards for decentralized identity, which operates on a 'triangle of trust' model involving three parties: an issuer, a holder, and a verifier. For instance, an organization can act as an issuer by cryptographically signing a digital credential and issuing it to an employee as a digital employee ID," said Joy Chik, President, Identity & Network Access at Microsoft.

"As the credential holder, the employee can decide to share their credential with apps and websites, such as LinkedIn. Then the verifier can cryptographically authenticate that the digital employee ID is genuine and was issued by the place of work the employee claims. This approach represents a more secure, convenient, and trustworthy way to verify digital information at scale." helpnetsecurity.com


5 Reasons to Become an Associate PO
PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) Associate Participating Organizations (APOs) are vital contributors to the mission of helping secure payment data globally. As an APO, you join a growing community of organizations and individuals dedicated to the development, promotion, and ongoing improvement of payment security standards and resources. blog.pcisecuritystandards.org


5 free online cybersecurity resources for small businesses

Popular Fitness Apps Leak Location Data Even When Users Set Privacy Zones

Coachella, CA: Pair Suspected of Stealing $30,000 of Diesel Fuel Free From Jail
Two men accused of stealing about $30,000 worth of diesel fuel in Coachella were free from jail on $30,000 bail bonds Wednesday. Anthony Aguilar Franco of Indio was released from jail Wednesday and 40-year-old Gerardo Morales Baldenegro of Mecca was released Tuesday, according to inmate records. Deputies responded at around 11:20 a.m. Sunday to the 48000 block of Avenue 48 to a report of diesel fuel theft, according to Sgt. Thomas Anderson of the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. Anderson said video surveillance cameras captured portions of approximately $30,000 worth of diesel fuel being stolen over a two-week period.  nbcpalmsprings.com


Newman, GA: 'Beauty Bandits' Steal Dyson Hair Products Worth $1,600, Lead Police On High Speed Chase
Georgia thieves targeted a local Ulta Beauty store and made a beeline towards the popular Dyson hairstyling tools. The pair grabbed three products, valued at $1,600, before walking out of the popular beauty store and dashing to an awaiting getaway car. Newnan Police shared Ulta Beauty surveillance video of Jessica Meister and Joseph Martinelli confidently walking into the Ulta store in Newnan, Georgia on Saturday and walking straight toward the Dyson hairstyling tool display in the middle of the store. Seconds later, the pair was seen on the surveillance video strolling out of the store as alarms blared, carrying the expensive hair stying tools. As the alarms began ringing, employees quickly called local authorities to report the brazen theft. Despite dashing off in their getaway car, the Coweta Sheriff's Office was patrolling the interstate and quickly spotted the car sporting Maryland license plates.  globeecho.com


Organized retail crime blamed for surge in shoplifting at Tanger Outlets in Riverhead
Riverhead police logged more than 200 reports of shoplifting at the Tanger Outlets mall in the past year, according to data obtained through public records requests. The Polo Ralph Lauren Factory Store at Tanger Outlets logged the most 911 calls for shoplifting - 39 in one year - followed by the UGG store, with 24, and H&M, with 16 calls, according to police records from March 18, 2022, to March 18, 2023. In all, 222 such calls from 50 different Tanger stores were made during this period.  riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com


Pueblo, CO: Reward offered in firearm theft from Pueblo sporting goods store

Odessa, TX: OPD looking for $600 Home Depot theft suspect