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Mathew Logan promoted to Senior Director of Asset Protection
for Walmart
Mathew has been with Walmart for more than eight years, starting in 2012
as an Asset Protection Manager. Before his promotion to Senior Director
of Asset Protection, he spent more than three years as Regional Asset
Protection Director and more than two years as Market Asset Protection
Manager. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly seven years with Target.
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Jason Swanson promoted to Senior Manager of Asset Protection for MOD Pizza
Jason has been with MOD Pizza for roughly a year and a half. Before his
promotion to Senior Manager of Asset Protection, he served as a Loss Prevention
Manager for the company. Prior to that, he spent over eight years as Senior
Regional Manager of Asset Protection for Abercrombie & Fitch. Earlier in his
career, he also held multiple ORC positions with Gap Inc. Congratulations,
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Nicole Lauf-Smith was promoted to Senior Investigator for Macy's
Nicole has been with Macy's for more than five years, starting with the company
in 2015 as a Manager of Asset Protection. Before her promotion to Senior
Investigator, she spent over a year as Operations Manager and a year and a half
as Asset Protection Manager II. Earlier in her career, she spent nearly six
years with Kmart as a Multi Unit Asset & Profit Protection Manager.
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D&D Daily Analysis:
Weekend Crime Remains High in Big Cities
 147 Shootings,
35 Killed in 20 U.S. Cities Studied - Aug. 21-23
This past weekend, the D&D Daily analyzed violent crime in 20 major cities
across the country, including those under the umbrella of 'Operation Legend.'
According to publicly reported data and media reports, these cities saw a
combined total of 147 shootings and 35 killed.
Click here to view the complete breakdown of this past weekend's
violence in 20 American cities and continue to follow along in the coming weeks
as the Daily monitors violence across the United States.
See our previously published
four-week report covering this
year's violent month of July.
White Collar Crime in Retail
CEO $50M Fraud - CSO Felony - CEO/Retail's Epstein
All in One Week - Last Week in the Daily
 From
Tip Lines, deleting emails, hiding a breach, illegal payments, lying to the FBI
& SEC, to intentionally misleading the board to get a severance package worth
from $35M to one quote of $57M, to sex trafficking in the Bahamas with possible
connections to Jeffrey Epstein. Last week was, as far as white collar crime is
concerned, probably
the most active week
we've seen
at the Daily. All of
which reinforcing the security basics that often times and in these cases are
either missed or ignored. As it's always the basics, the simplest things that
allow executives to get away with it or catch them. As was the
case at McDonald's
with
the Tip Line.
The bottom line there
was that the initial CEO investigation was certainly superficial and the board
accepted it.
The Uber story is a
different matter and we may not have heard the last of that story. As the former
CEO and co-founder we may be talking about also played a direct role in hiring
that Google executive who just pled guilty in Federal court for stealing the
self-driving documents and taking them over to Uber. With one source early on
indicating the former Uber CEO knew all about it and may have encouraged it. But
I think this story is going to continue. Let's see.
Now, with
Canada's Epstein -
Nygard story, I'll save my comments for
Wednesday's Canadian
Connections
column. Because I
absolutely have an opinion there that may shock you.
Read it Wednesday.
 Watch: Former Uber CSO Charged With Covering Up 2016 Data Breach
Uber's former chief security officer, Joseph Sullivan, was charged last week
with obstruction of justice for allegedly covering up the 2016 hack attack that
compromised sensitive data for 57 million Uber passengers and drivers.
In this video, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California David
Anderson is joined by FBI Deputy Special Agent in Charge Craig Fair to announce
the charges against Joseph Sullivan.
govinfosecurity.com
UK: Retail Violence News:
Petition against abuse of shopworkers reaches 10,000 signatures in one day
-
first milestone
Which means the government will respond to the
issue.
The
petition now has more than 30,000 signatures and Usdaw is continuing to
campaign for the
100,000 signatures that should trigger a parliamentary debate.
The UK's largest convenience store retailer Co-op Food, along with the
industry's leading trade bodies the British Retail Consortium and the
Association of Convenience Stores
have backed the petition.
With
incidents of abuse
doubling during the Covid-19 crisis
they are saying loud and clear that enough is enough, abuse should never be just
a part of the job.
talkingretail.com
Protests & Riots
Kenosha, WI: Protests erupt overnight following officer-involved shooting
Officers deployed tear gas early Monday to disperse hundreds of people
who took to the streets following a police shooting in Kenosha that also drew a
harsh rebuke from the governor after a video posted on social media appeared
to show officers shoot at a Black man's back seven times as he leaned into a
vehicle.
The man, identified by his family as Jacob Blake, 29, is in serious condition at
Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, the Kenosha Police Department said in a
statement. The family has since confirmed that Blake is out of surgery and
stable.
By late Sunday, multiple vehicle fires had been set and windows smashed along
city thoroughfares as crowds faced off with law enforcement. Officers in
riot gear stood in lines and SWAT vehicles remained on the streets to move
people away from city buildings despite the declaration of an overnight curfew.
Tear gas was used to disperse groups of people, according to reporters at the
scene.
fox6now.com
nbcnews.com
Rioting in Kenosha Over Jacob Blake Shooting, State of Emergency Curfew Declared
Wisconsin Gov. Evers compares Kenosha shooting to deaths of Breonna Taylor and
George Floyd
Riots Declared in Portland on Saturday and
Sunday
Portland: Police declare riot Sunday night after police precinct set on fire
 Portland police declared a demonstration at the North Precinct a riot Sunday
night as the city entered its 13th week of protests against police brutality.
Police say they used tear gas to move the crowd and made 23 arrests.
A group of about 200 people gathered at Woodlawn Park in Northeast Portland
Sunday and marched to the precinct. The group marches daily and calls for
abolition of the police force and prison system, according to social media
posts.
Police declared the group an unlawful assembly, then a riot, after reporting
that members of the group threw fireworks, rocks, bottles, chunks of ceramic,
large metal screws, paint balloons, marbles and signs torn from the ground. A
couple of awnings on the precinct were set on fire and as officers extinguished
the fires, members of the group threw items at them, according to police.
kgw.com
Portland: Dueling demonstrations turn violent downtown
Saturday saw some of the worst person on
person violence since protests began. But Portland police had limited presence.
Portland Police made 14 arrests Saturday night, after officers declared a
riot in Southeast Portland. They said some in the crowd were throwing rocks and
other items at them. But police never declared a riot and made no arrests
earlier in the day, when fights broke out and firearms were everywhere during
dueling protests downtown.
Alt-Right and Proud Boy factions mixed it up with left-wing protesters. People
were injured in various skirmishes in the streets near the Multnomah County
Justice Center and Federal Courthouse. Many members of the right-wing side came
armed with handguns and rifles. One frightening incident was caught on camera,
of an alt-right member pointing a handgun at the opposing crowd, with his finger
on the trigger. Police said they have identified the man and are investigating,
but also looking for more witnesses.
kgw.com
Portland's protests: 3 months in, no end in sight
In Portland, a Prosecutor Must Decide: Which Protesters Should Go to Jail?
The History of Protesting vs. Rioting:
What's the difference, do they send the message?
"What a protest is, is people who are peacefully protesting a cause or an
issue and they are letting their voices be heard in the protest or march for the
cause that they're protesting. A riot is when people take that to another
extent and they do damage to property or to people," said Reverend Charles
Harrison.
"This is a different generation of individuals and they express their pain in
different ways than previous generations have expressed their pain ... nobody
hears us when we're peaceful so people will hear us when we riot, when we loot,
when we vandalize," said Harrison.
cbs4indy.com
Difference Between Civil Disturbances and Riots, According to Portland Police
Portland Police have declared a number of protest demonstrations in the city as
riots since late May. There's also a middle step between protests and riots -
defined as civil disturbances, which they've also declared several times.
According to police: A civil disturbance or unlawful assembly is a
gathering that constitutes "a clear and present danger of riot, disorder,
interference with traffic" or other threat to public safety; a riot is
when six or more people "engage in tumultuous and violent conduct and thereby
intentionally or recklessly creating a grave risk of causing public alarm."
kgw.com
Denver officials denounce "anarchists" who damaged property, set fires Saturday
night
Oversight agency announces 87 investigations into Seattle Police protest conduct
Detroit police arrest 42 during downtown protest after weeks of calm
Looting
Chicago:
Mayor Lightfoot pledged $10 million to businesses damaged by looting. The city paid out far less, records show.
 Under pressure to offer solutions as Chicago reeled from days of widespread
looting earlier this summer, Mayor Lori Lightfoot promised help was on the way
for small businesses that had been ransacked. City Hall would spend
$10 million
to create the "Together Now" fund, ask philanthropists to chip in more, and
funnel the cash to shop owners the first-term mayor said had been "most affected
over the last few days."
But records obtained by the Tribune show the Lightfoot administration only paid
out a fraction of what the mayor promised to businesses damaged during the civil
unrest that followed the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.
Just $232,760 in grants were approved for 77 Chicago businesses, records show.
The city determined 120 businesses that applied weren't eligible and said
another 300 or so applications were incomplete.
A top Lightfoot aide said the purpose of the fund morphed because there wasn't
enough demand for $10 million in looting relief that would have met the city's
stringent requirements. Instead, the city also distributed about $6 million from
the fund to businesses that suffered losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
chicagotribune.com
Chicago police release more video, photos of 26 looting suspects
Why the Unrest in Chicago Has Been Decades in the Making
Looters target California wildfire evacuees
Thousands have been driven from their homes by the wildfire burning in the Santa
Cruz Mountains south of San Francisco and authorities say criminals are taking
advantage by burglarizing vacant homes.
Eight people have been arrested
on suspicion of looting or planning to loot neighborhoods in Santa Cruz County,
Sheriff Jim Hart said Sunday. More are expected as
the public reports
"a lot of looting going on,"
he said.
At least 100 officers are patrolling evacuation zones and Hart said he's ordered
his deputies to pull over any non-police or non-fire department vehicles. Some
of the arrests came from community tips, including from residents who refused to
evacuate and others who spotted suspicious activity on their home security
cameras, Hart said.
nypost.com
California fires: 250,000 under evacuation orders amid three Bay Area blazes
COVID Update
US: Over 5.8M Cases - 180K Dead - 3.1M Recovered
Worldwide:
Over 23.6M Cases - 814K Dead - 16.1M Recovered
Private Industry Security Guard Deaths:
186
Law
Enforcement Officer Deaths: 91
*Red indicates change in total
deaths
Coronavirus Complicates Workplace Drug-Testing Programs
Some safety programs - such as drug-free workplace initiatives - have become more
complicated to administer.
Is drug testing still a priority for employers? When it comes to marijuana
screening,
many businesses have
already considered scrapping pre-employment tests and treating cannabis
consumption like alcohol use by monitoring for on-the-job intoxication.
"There is a labor shortage in some industries due to COVID-19-related illnesses,
unemployment subsidies, fear and child care issues,"
Employers who test for marijuana use may decide to revisit their policies, as
marijuana sales appear to be hitting record highs in states where it is legal
under state law.
shrm.org
'You now have COVID':
Police seek man allegedly giving 'COVID hugs' at Springfield, MA Walmart
 Springfield
police are turning to the public for help identifying a man who allegedly gave a
Walmart shopper a hug before telling him that he now has COVID-19.
The incident reportedly happened around 7:10 p.m. on Aug. 15 at the Walmart on
Boston Road, where the suspect allegedly took an item out of the victim's hands
and gave him a hug, police said in a Facebook post.
He then reportedly told the victim, according to police, "Just giving you a COVID hug. You now have COVID." The suspect allegedly began laughing before
walking away.
Officers said the victim, who is a cancer survivor, had never seen the suspect
before. Police noted that the suspect had given other customers hugs as well.
boston.com
Good News in LA on COVID-19
Signs of progress. After weeks of grim predictions, California saw a batch of
positive pandemic-related developments.
Death rates are down, especially in
hard-hit Black and Latino communities. Cases in L.A. County are dropping and
may soon fall lower enough for officials to
seek to reopen schools with the help of an
ambitious testing and tracing program. latimes.com
China offers glimpse into post-coronavirus retail industry, Bain report says
Gov. Cuomo mulls ending outdoor dining as NYC restaurants' frustrations grow
83% of New York City restaurant owners couldn't pay full rent in July, report
shows
Should restaurants charge a pandemic fee?
COVID-19 researchers record first case of reinfection
'Prolonged Period of Hazardous Weather'
Marco & Laura take aim at Gulf Coast, threatening areas from Louisiana to Texas
 The
Atlantic Hurricane Season of 2020 just won't let up, as the earliest L and M
storms simultaneously spin towards the Gulf Coast on Monday. Some areas could be
affected by both storms, resulting in "a
prolonged period of hazardous weather,"
according to the National Hurricane Center.
First up is
Tropical Storm Marco,
which is nearing the
coast of Louisiana,
where tropical storm and storm-surge warnings are in effect. The storm has been
weakening due to disruptive shear - a change in wind speed and direction with
altitude.
Meanwhile, about 1,000 miles to the southeast over Cuba,
Tropical Storm Laura
is completing its damaging journey from Puerto Rico, across Hispaniola and along
the shores of Cuba. Computer models suggest Laura could tap the exceptionally
warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and intensify into a large and dangerous
hurricane as it moves toward the Gulf Coast. The storm is forecast to
make landfall late
Wednesday or early Thursday
in the zone between
roughly New Orleans and Houston.
washingtonpost.com
Louisiana under state of emergency as two storms approach
Texas governor declares state of disaster in 23 counties as two storms approach
Great News For the Market Overall
Big-Box Stores, Worried About Amazon, Were Ready for Coronavirus
Walmart, Target and others had been adding curbside and delivery services, and
cashed in when coronavirus pushed sales online.
But now,
Walmart, Home Depot and
a handful of other big retailers are delivering not only strong sales but also
strong profits. Last
week,
Target posted an 80%
jump in earnings from a
year ago, while profit leapt
75% Lowe's.
Amazon profit
doubled to a record $5.2 billion
in its June quarter.
These big companies had already invested to build their online businesses and
had cash on hand to adjust to the pandemic. "We
had a lot of the infrastructure in place,
and we just had to ramp up,"
We will see a sort of winnowing out of the folks who were already structurally
disadvantaged against the big box," he said.Some shoppers are being trained to
use these online services at big-box retailers and won't go back to competitors.
wsj.com
Foot traffic to shopping centers reaching pre-pandemic levels
Foot traffic at U.S. malls and outlet centers together has been gaining since
May and is approaching pre-pandemic levels, according to emailed analysis from
S&P Global Market Intelligence based on mobile data from Airsage.
Outlet traffic in the week ending Aug. 9 was slightly higher than 2019
levels, while traffic to REIT-owned malls was down 15% year over year, according
to S&P.
The analysis also found that foot traffic to Taubman Centers and Macerich
centers were the slowest to rebound during the period, with traffic down 25%.
A
tracker from another foot traffic analytics firm, Placer.ai, shows that
shopping center traffic is still down about 27% year over year, while
traffic to apparel retailers - which occupy many of those malls and outlet
centers - is down 30%.
retaildive.com
Hope Across The Pond
UK retail sales climb back to pre-pandemic levels
Retail sales rose above pre-pandemic levels in July as a rebound in demand
continued, according to official figures. The
Office for National Statistics (ONS) said retail sales volumes rose by 3.6%
between June and July. It said sales are now 3% higher than February
before the World Health Organization declared a pandemic and the UK was placed
in lockdown.
July's rise in retail sales was not as pronounced as the previous two months. In
May, retail sales had increased by 12% and in June they had risen by 13.9%.
Sales in clothing shops grew by 11.9% last month while online shopping fell by
7%
bbc.com
Senior LP & AP Jobs
Market
Vice President - Loss Prevention job posted for Gap Inc. in San Francisco, CA
 The
Vice President, Old Navy Loss Prevention will develop and lead the Loss
Prevention and Safeness strategies and teams to protect the Old Navy
organizations 1200+
stores, located in 3 countries, supported by 54,000+ employees
who deliver approximately $8 billion USD in annual sales. This leader will
create and implement programs and practices that provide a safe and secure
environment for Old Navy stores, employees, and customers; and will lead the Old
Navy organization to minimize Total Loss related to theft, fraud, malfeasance,
and systemic error.
gapinc.com
COMING TOMORROW:
The Daily's Analysis & Full Year 2020 Crime
Outlook
Click
here to see our Mid-Year & Q2 2020 crime reports
Stage Stores Heads for Liquidation
Neiman Marcus adds D.C. location to store closing list
Super Soaker water guns sold at Target recalled over lead concerns
Salmonella outbreak tied to peaches, recall issued
Quarterly
Results
Foot Locker Q2 comp's 18.6%, total sales up 17.1%
Last week's #1 article --
Ex-McDonald's CEO Fires Back at Chain's Effort to Strip Pay
- Easterbrook denies he covered up
relationships with employees
- McDonald's sued executive over sexual relations with workers
 "McDonald's
-- a sophisticated entity represented by numerous internal and external experts
when it entered into the separation agreement -- is aware it cannot credibly
allege a breach of contract claim," Easterbrook's lawyers said Friday in a
filing Delaware Chancery Court, seeking to have the lawsuit thrown out.
"Instead, it improperly seeks to
manufacture claims for a breach of fiduciary duty or fraud."
"McDonald's stands by its complaint, both the factual assertions and the court
in which it was filed," the company said.
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Auror for ORCAs
A free initiative to combat ORC.
Retail Crime Intelligence
Platform creators Auror, are
announcing that they are making available a version of their platform that
Organized Retail Crime Associations (ORCAs) and their
ORC
Investigators can use for free.
Through discussions with ORCA leaders around the country there is a clear
funding gap, technical limitations, and security concerns that are holding ORCAs
back from being their most effective. By partnering to provide industry-leading
technology with enterprise-grade security to ORCAs, Auror can help the
associations and investigators continue to build cross-industry relationships
and reduce the impact of ORC on the retail industry and our communities.
Co-Founder and Co-CEO Tom Batterbury says "there is great alignment with our
mission at Auror to empower a connected community to combat retail crime. ORCAs
play an important role and this is our way of giving back to the industry and
reducing retail crime."
During the recent
Global Retail Crime Summit, Ret. General Stanley McCrystal talked about "it
takes a network to beat a network". There is no question that retail criminals
are leveraging their network against all retailers, and this is a great
opportunity to address retail crime as an industry in a safe and secure way.
If you are interested in finding out more, please email
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Companies Battle Another Pandemic: Skyrocketing Hacking Attempts
Weak Wi-Fi passwords, shared laptops are the
stuff of cybersecurity nightmares
Equifax Inc. had spent years working to repair its reputation after a massive
data breach when lockdown orders meant office workers around the world had to
start working from home this spring. With most of its 11,000-plus employees
scattered far from the company's security team, the credit rating agency
couldn't afford a repeat of the painful 2017 breach, in which cybercriminals
accessed Social Security numbers, addresses, drivers-license information and
other details of about 150 million Americans.
Work-from-home requirements have magnified cybersecurity threats for practically
every company, whose data now must traverse Wi-Fi networks with passwords named
after the family dog while workers share devices with teenagers taking
classes on Zoom or playing Fortnite with their friends.
In an effort to protect its most sensitive information, Equifax gave
customer-support agents laptops with software designed to detect suspicious
activity that could expose information or give hackers a way into the company's
computer network. Those employees normally work in restricted call centers and
typically weren't allowed to work from home, said Jamil Farshchi, the company's
chief information security officer.
Security researchers have warned that hackers are targeting employees doing
business from their new, makeshift workplaces, using techniques such as scam
emails that pretend to be videoconference invitations but that actually steal
network credentials.
Technology, health-care and financial companies aren't the only ones under
siege. With around half the U.S. workforce working remotely, according to
a June study from the National Bureau of Economic Research, even companies like
Kraft-Heinz Co. are experiencing an uptick in attempts on their networks.
Before the pandemic, some firms tracked thousands, even millions of threats a
day. As soon as workers headed home, companies started seeing attacks surge.
"In the course of [the first] two weeks, we saw orders-of-magnitude increases in
our alerts," said John Masserini, who leads cybersecurity for telecommunications
operator Millicom International Cellular SA. "We watched our security
operations center light up."
wsj.com
Large-scale migrations away from on-premise environments are underway
COVID-19 has had a massive effect on DevOps, leading to large-scale migrations
away from on-premises environments, a Codefresh survey reveals.
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some infrastructure to the cloud with 17% of respondents planning to move their
entire stack to the cloud.
In total, about 75% of respondents said that they are moving at least part of
their infrastructure to the cloud as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic,
representing a dramatic shift in strategy and further adoption towards the
cloud.
helpnetsecurity.com
New 'Duri' Campaign Uses HTML Smuggling to Deliver Malware
A new attack campaign is using HTML smuggling and data blobs to deliver malware
onto victim machines while evading network security solutions including
sandboxes and legacy proxies.
The goal of HTML smuggling is to leverage HTML5/JavaScript features to deliver
file downloads. Attackers can deploy the download using Data URLs on the client
device, or they can create a JavaScript blob with the correct MIME-type, which
results in a download on the target device.
"With Duri, the entire payload is constructed on the client side (browser), so
no objects are transferred over the wire for the sandbox to inspect,"
researchers state in a report. In this case, they say, attackers were seen using
the JavaScript blob technique to smuggle malicious files via the browser onto
the target's endpoint.
darkreading.com
Cryptominer Found Embedded in AWS Community AMI
Security researchers urge
Amazon Web Services
customers running Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances based on community
Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) to check for potentially malicious embedded code,
following their discovery of a cryptominer lurking inside a Community AMI.
darkreading.com
 2020
CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses
The Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute, sponsored
by the Department of Homeland Security and operated by MITRE, has released the
2020 Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses
list. The Top 25 uses data from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) to
compile the most frequent and critical errors that can lead to serious
vulnerabilities in software.
cisa.gov
235 million TikTok, Instragram and YouTube accounts exposed in database breach
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Are You Credible?
What makes an interviewer credible? I recently posted this question to
LinkedIn and was overwhelmed with the response from the industry. The poll
question I presented provided four options, "Experience", "Training", "Results"
or "Other". There were some common trends of responses including empathy,
integrity, experience and confidence. When we look at the credibility of the
interviewer, its important that we look at the entire context. Experienced
interviewers will bring credibility in the sense of practical application,
learning from their successes while also reflecting on their failures. Training
or education should be the foundation of any credible interviewer, whether they
are just beginning in their trade or have become a self-proclaimed "expert.
Results are also important, however the unit of measurement must be considered.
A confession rate is not the measurement of credibility or success of an
interviewer, but rather their ability to extract reliable information through
acceptable methods.
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How Four Brothers Allegedly Fleeced $19 Million From Amazon
The scheme involved 7,000 $94 toothbrushes,
according to law enforcement
Over the course of two years, four brothers in New York allegedly swindled
Amazon out of at least $19 million using thousands of $94 toothbrushes and other
expensive goods, according to a Department of Justice indictment unsealed
Wednesday.
 All
four brothers, who were arrested Wednesday, are accused of
using wholesale businesses
they opened to engage in a scam called "overshipping."
It works by intentionally
sending a company more goods
than it ordered and billing for it.
On Amazon, every product is given a unique identifier, a string of numbers
called an Amazon Standard Identification Number. They are part of an item's
listing in Amazon's catalog. Vendors have the ability to change listings, to
make sure things like product descriptions are accurate.
According to the indictment, the brothers swapped ASINs for items Amazon ordered
to send large quantities of different goods instead. In one instance, Amazon
ordered 12 canisters of disinfectant spray costing $94.03. The defendants
allegedly
shipped 7,000 toothbrushes
costing $94.03 each,
using the code for the disinfectant spray, and later
billed Amazon for over
$650,000.
In another instance, Amazon ordered a single bottle of designer perfume for
$289.78. In response, according to the indictment, the defendants sent 927
plastic beard trimmers costing $289.79 each, using the ASIN for the perfume.
Prosecutors say the brothers frequently shipped and charged Amazon for more than
10,000 units of an item when it had requested fewer than 100. Once Amazon
detected the fraud and shut down their accounts, the
brothers allegedly tried to open new ones using fake names, different email
addresses, and VPNs to
obscure their identity.
wire.com
The Coronavirus Accelerates Online's Destruction Of Brick & Mortar Shopping
The pandemic has really smashed traditional stores. Business Insider reports
that in the United States over 12,000 stores will be closing this year - 6,300
have already announced - not including small businesses like restaurants which
will amount to many times this number.
forbes.com
Watch out, Amazon and Walmart - Kroger is coming
Positioning itself to become a major retail technology platform.
As shoppers stay away, small stores seek refuge online
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Seekonk, MA: 3 Arrested After Allegedly Stealing $10,000 Worth Of Products From
Ulta Beauty Store
 Three
people were arrested by Seekonk Police Thursday afternoon after they were
allegedly caught in the act of stealing the Ulta Beauty store on Commerce Way.
Police said 36-year-old Kyronne Williams, of Seekonk, 28-year-old Denaisha
Stephenson, of Hartford, Conn., and 30-year-old Amyna Adams, of Hartford, Conn.,
were arrested at the scene. Employees told police the suspects were hiding
products in handbags, shopping baskets, and trash bags. When officers arrived
one of the suspects tried to run away but was quickly apprehended. "After an
on-scene investigation, it was determined that the suspects had stolen $9,841.69
worth of merchandise in the current incident alone," said police. When officers
searched their car, more merchandise worth thousands of dollars was found along
with cash. Police said it appears the stolen products were sold to salons,
bodegas, stores, and individuals for cash.
boston.cbslocal.com
FBI offers $25K reward offered in case of pharmacy robbery crew targeting PA and
MD
 The
FBI is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information on a crew that targets
pharmacies in Pennsylvania and Maryland, spraying employees and patrons with a
pepper-like substance as they take prescription pills. One such incident
occurred at the Rite Aid in Jackson Township in February. Just as the FBI
describes, the crew wore black clothing, including hoods and masks, deployed a
pepper-like spray and made off with medication.
The FBI has classified
the robbery crew as "armed and dangerous" and say they are responsible for more
than a dozen pharmacy robberies in Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The crew focuses on
prescription drugs Oxycodone, Percocet and Promethazine.
ydr.com
Burlington, WI: Man accused of stealing more than $3,700 worth of Menards
merchandise through ID theft
James L. Humphreys, 58, has a warrant worth $5,000 for felony counts of personal
ID theft for financial gain and retail theft intentionally taking between
$500-$5,000. On March 9, an officer responded to Menards. for a reported theft.
The theft occurred at approximately 8 p.m. on March 8. The store manager stated
that a man and two woman entered the store and took merchandise without consent.
The theft consisted of three transactions: one for miscellaneous items and an
electric range, one for a refrigerator and one for a $300 gift card. The cost of
the three transactions was $3,733.31. The store manager stated that while the
man was checking out, he presented the cashier with an ID for someone from
Bridgeview, Illinois.
journaltimes.com
Coral Springs, FL: Nearly $900 of Calculators stolen from Target equal Grand
Theft
According to surveillance, Nicholas grabbed seven Texas Instrument calculators
with a total value of $874.93 and exited the store several minutes later without
paying for the calculators. Nicholas also had an open warrant for his arrest for
a parole violation.
coralspringstalk.com
Laredo, TX: Man charged with theft of tools totaling nearly $600 from The Home
Depot
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Lexington, KY: One person killed, two wounded in Fayette Mall shooting
Three people were shot, one fatally, inside a Kentucky mall on Sunday,
police said. The shooting occurred about 4 p.m. outside of a store in
the Fayette Mall in Lexington, cops said. Lexington Police Chief
Lawrence Weathers said the shooting did not appear to be random. "It
appears from the information that we've gathered thus far that the
persons involved knew each other," Weathers told reporters. "We know at
least the intended target may have known the suspect." The condition of
the other two victims was not immediately known.
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Lafayette, LA: Police shoot, kill man with a knife outside a C-Store
The mother of a man fatally shot by Louisiana police said her son was
intelligent, shy and had sought therapy for social anxiety. Her lawyers said
they plan to sue over the death of Trayford Pellerin, who police said had a
knife and was trying to enter a convenience store. The shooting Friday night was
captured on video, and the state ACLU condemned what it described as a "horrific
and deadly incident of police violence against a Black person." Both the ACLU
and the Southern Poverty Law Center quickly called for an investigation.
Pellerin's death prompted a crowd of protesters to gather Saturday and
demonstrate against the latest fatal police shooting. Officers in riot gear
fired smoke canisters on Saturday night to get the crowd to disperse, Trooper
Derek Senegal said. No tear gas was deployed, he said. On Friday night,
Lafayette officers followed Pellerin, 31, on foot as he left a convenience store
where he had created a disturbance with a knife, Louisiana State Police said.
Stun guns failed to stop him, and the officers shot Pellerin as he tried to
enter another convenience store, still with the knife, according to a news
release.
abcnews.go.com
Quebec, Canada: Security guard dies four months after being run over outside
Quebec Walmart
A security guard in Quebec died Thursday after allegedly being hit by the car of
a Walmart customer who was enraged by COVID-19 safety measurements at the store.
Philippe Jean, 35, had been in a critical condition after the impact, and was in
an induced coma for almost four months until he passed away, his brother,
Guillaume Jean, confirmed to Radio Canada. Jean endured severe injuries after
the customer at Walmart's Sherbrooke branch allegedly slammed his car into him
out of frustration. The incident happened only a few days after Jean joined the
store's security team. The 25-year-old suspect in the case, Nacime Kouddar, has
been charged with hit and run, armed assault and assault by a vehicle causing
bodily harm.
theprovince.com
Nashville, TN: C-store owner shot and killed in overnight robbery
A suspect in Ghaly's slaying, 21-year-old Jerome Knight Jr., surrendered to
police Saturday night and is charged with criminal homicide and attempted
especially aggravated robbery. Maged Ghaly, 49, was working at his Danial Market
on Dickerson Pike near Donald Street when he was killed shortly after midnight
during a suspected robbery, according to Metro police.
tennessean.com
Baton Rouge, LA: 61 year old man Shot and killed in the parking lot outside
Trader Joe's
Dallas, TX: Man found shot and killed in the parking lot of Texas Wings
restaurant
Robberies, Incidents & Thefts
Truth or Consequences, NM: Man arrested for driving car into Walmart, attempting
to burn it down
An Elephant Butte man is now in custody after driving his car through the front
of the Walmart Supercenter in Truth or Consequences early Sunday morning. Police
responded a little before 1 a.m. Sunday morning to the Walmart on H.R. Ashbaugh
Dr. to find the suspect, 35-year-old Devon Schinagel, inside the store. After
Schinagel was put under arrest, police learned that he was planning on burning
down the store and had poured lighter fluid around the store. Schinagel is
facing several felony charges including aggravated burglary, attempt to commit
arson, and criminal damage to property over $1,000. He is currently being held
at the Luna County Detention Center.
krqe.com
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Idaho Falls, ID: Dollar Tree cashier helps woman escape violent abuse
A local man is accused of beating and threatening to kill a woman along
with her 7-year-old son. Kristopher Darrel Lloyd Griffey, 35, is charged
with felony domestic battery with traumatic injury and two felony counts
of attempted strangulation. According to an affidavit of probable cause,
the investigation into the alleged domestic abuse happened over a
weekend. Police received multiple 911 calls, including one from a
cashier who received a note from the victim.
eastidahonews.com |
Seattle, WA: Wanted convicted felon suspected of two smash-and-grab jewelry
store heists, necklace snatch
 Detectives
from Seattle to Tukwila to Tacoma say King's behavior appears to be escalating
from a necklace snatch to two smash-and-grab jewelry thefts and then an armed
robbery earlier this month. Seattle Police say surveillance video from Wyatt's
Jewelers at Westwood Village in West Seattle shows two men inside Lauren
Wiggins' store. "They were pretending like they were looking for a gift, so one
of them was saying he was looking for a gift for his girlfriend. He distracted
our sales staff, got her over on this side of the store," Wiggins described.
q13fox.com
Raleigh, NC: Fight triggers panic at Crabtree Valley Mall in Raleigh
Crabtree Valley Mall security said a teenage fight triggered panic at the
popular shopping center on Saturday evening. Raleigh police said they initially
responded to reports of shots fired at the mall around 6:30 p.m. After an
investigation, Raleigh police determined that there were no shots fired. There
are also no reports of injuries or charges at this time.
abc11.com
Springfield, IL: Menards theft suspect hit Loss Prevention employee with car
At about 4:30 p.m. Friday, officers said the woman was confronted by loss
prevention on the way out of the store. She's accused of then getting into a car
and intentionally striking an employee. The man working security had
non-life-threatening injuries, police said. Police added they are looking for
the suspect and believe they know who she is.
wandtv.com
Bryan, TX: Former Employee Heading To Federal Prison for $855,000 in Credit card
theft from an Oil and Energy Company
Colorado Springs, CO: Joshua Youngblood Sentenced To 74 Years For 9 Robberies;
restaurants, grocery store, pharmacy and hotel
Mississippi Coast Crime Stoppers purchase two more kiosks
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District Loss Prevention Manager
Fort Wayne, IN - posted August 24
The District Loss Prevention Manager ensures shrinkage control and improves
safety in the stores through proper investigation and training. This position is
responsible to provide feedback, guidance and protection for our Team Leaders
and Associates. This role has oversight and responsibility for approximately 16
to 20 store locations...
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Santa Monica, CA - posted August 6
The Senior Asset Protections Specialist contributes to REI's success by
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Bellevue, WA - posted August 6
This job contributes to REI's success by ensuring the security and safety of
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Houston, TX
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Under the guidance of the Directors of Loss Prevention (LP) and Health, Safety
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overseeing and championing initiatives and company programs, processes and
controls that builds a culture around continuous improvement in
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Glendale, CA
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