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APEX: Retailers share how
they use face matching AI for life safety, workplace violence prevention
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helps you comply with new workplace violence laws and provide safer stores
Last week’s great
APEX event
zeroed in on retail violence. At FaceFirst, that’s our focus every day! Whether
you’re facing violent ex-employees, violent ex-spouses, or violent day-to-day
thieves, our face matching software provides active threat management. We send
immediate alerts when known threats enter. Our real-time notifications help you
provide safer stores for your employees and customers.
Senior retail LP experts shared their real-world experiences from the APEX stage
in Nashville. Here are a few examples from one session:
“We've partnered with
FaceFirst for five years. They’ve really helped us enhance the efficiency of
our store management and asset protection teams. With real-time alerting, we
know who’s walking into our stores within three to five seconds. It gives us
situational awareness for threats of violence, for those individuals we
don’t want our people to approach. It helps reduce law enforcement’s
response time to our stores, too. It's been absolutely great for us.”
“When we went to the organization about the need for this [face matching]
technology, our first priority was life safety. The majority of C-suite
discussions today are: How do we keep our stores, our customers, and our
associates safe? I don't know of a better tool that helps us be more
proactive and mitigate threats in our stores. This technology has advanced
so much, and you're going to see it grow exponentially. If you're interested
in this tool, I would tell your organization: You're going to be way behind
the curve without it.”
“It's a different world now, and the appetite from the C-suite to try new
things is huge. We put ALPR in about half our stores with tremendous success
and zero incidents. The leadership's already coming back saying: Now how
fast can you get facial recognition on top of that?”
Another APEX session focused on workplace violence. FaceFirst can help you
comply with laws that require companies to implement workplace violence
programs. California’s legislature passed a new workplace violence law last week
that awaits the governor’s signature. Texas passed a law this summer, so at
least nine states now require employers to provide workplace violence prevention
programs.
The human tragedies of workplace violence are incalculable, but there are other
costs to consider. After a former employee killed seven people in January,
California fined the two employers involved for failing to have a workplace
violence notification system in place. They also cited one of the two employers
for failing to address previous workplace violence incidents.
FaceFirst has seen significant market adoption driven by in-store violence and
theft. Our face matching technology delivers vital life safety, loss prevention,
and investigative benefits.
 Calculate
the risks of being caught unaware when a known offender enters your store. If
you knew there was a proven solution to keep your valued customers and
associates safer from violent offenders, would you implement it? The real risk
is answering no.
FaceFirst’s solution is fast and accurate—take action today at
facefirst.com.
The U.S. Crime Surge
The Retail Impact
Michigan ORC FORCE Team Joins Forces with FBI
FBI to Partner with AG Nessel’s FORCE Team to Combat Organized Retail Fraud
 Today,
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) has
entered into formal partnership
with the Attorney General’s FORCE Team, a partnership between Michigan State
Police (MSP) and the Organized Retail Crime Unit at the Department of Attorney
General, established to
combat coordinated theft and resale operations targeting Michigan retailers.
The FORCE Team operates within the Michigan State Police Department.
The state’s FORCE Team will work collaboratively with the FBI’s Detroit Fraud
and Financial Crimes Task Force (DFFACT) in
an
effort to squash organized retail crime that crosses state or international
borders. One
special agent from the DFFACT will be assigned to the FORCE Team, joining a team
already comprised of two assistant attorneys general, Michigan State Police
detectives, and special agents from the Department of Attorney General’s
Criminal Investigations Division.
“I’m very grateful for our new partnership with the FBI and look forward to the
continued success of the FORCE Team,” said Nessel. “The addition of the federal
authorities to the investigations already underway by our
first-in-the-nation team
including my department and the Michigan State Police is significant. Our FORCE
Team has been pursuing wide-reaching investigations that have already produced
multiple charges in just its first months of operation, and this partnership
will considerably strengthen the team.”
The FORCE Team and the
Organized Retail Crime Unit were established in January by the Attorney General
to target criminal organizations that steal products from retailers to repackage
and sell for a profit.
Two assistant attorneys general serve the unit full time, working with special
agents within the Department of Attorney General and Michigan State Police
detectives to investigate and prosecute these crimes. This is a
first-in-the-nation unit, unique in the 50 states as being the first such unit
with embedded, dedicated staff from the Department of Attorney General.
The FORCE Team is dedicated to working collaboratively with retailers and local
law enforcement agencies to combat organized retail crime.
Recent corporate partners on
investigations have included
Sam’s Club/Walmart,
Meijer,
Target, Home Depot, TJ Maxx, Rite-Aid, Lululemon, Ulta, and Lowe’s.
The team’s first major investigation produced charges against seven individuals
earlier this year. Local law enforcement agencies or retailers with evidence
of organized retail fraud are encouraged to
email the FORCE Team.
michigan.gov
Theft Crisis Pushing Stores to Decide if Keeping
Stores Open is Worth the Risk
Retail Theft is Pushing Stores to Weigh the Risk of Keeping a Physical Presence
 In
today’s retail landscape, the role of brick-and-mortar stores has been under
scrutiny, especially with the
rise of online shopping and
retail theft. The
iconic
San Francisco Centre Nordstrom store, a downtown staple for over three
decades, has permanently shut its doors, reflecting the city’s
changing dynamics and rising
crime rates. Retail
theft has even gone so far in some places, such as
local Target stores in Santa Monica, that less valuable goods are now protected
by locked cabinets.
With the prevalence of online shopping and
retail theft forcing some
stores to close or drastically change their security measures,
the purpose and function of physical stores is now shifting. Despite what some
may think, the experience of visiting a store, interacting with products, and
soaking in the ambiance is irreplaceable. But
retailers must adapt, ensuring that their locations serve their clientele
and that security measures don’t detract from the shopping experience.
How can retailers fulfill the cravings that consumers still have for the
physical shopping experience, and
when should some retailers
draw the line if the risks of staying open due to retail theft are too high?
As we approach these topics, we turn to
Katrijn Gielens, Professor of Marketing at the
University of North
Carolina, for her expert insights.
Katrijn’s Thoughts:
When we go back to the likes of the Nordstroms, to them I think the shrinkage
story is somewhat the last drop. This is where they say it’s no longer sort of
like defending or sort of like justifying why we have a store in, let’s say,
downtown San Francisco.
Shoppers and consumers have so
many different alternatives.
If those other people are no longer visiting that location, which may also be in
part because of some of the crime issues,
then what are you still doing
there? Your store needs
to sort of fulfill certain roles. What are the typical things that you can do?
You can work on security. But
what if security become such
an issue that it sort of takes away from the experience?
When you start to sort of try and fight sort of the shrinkage increasing all
kinds of security measures and locking everything up, not being able to touch
and feel products, the role of the store is completely annihilated. There is no
longer a reason to go to the store. So,
whatever you try to do to
fight sort of the crime issues or the shrinkage is running counter to creating a
store experience.
marketscale.com
USA's #1 Top ORC Hot Spot City for 18 Months Consecutively
Memphis & Shelby County Officials Recognize They
Have a Serious Crime Problem
‘We have a crime crisis right now:’ DA’s office hosts public-safety summit
The Shelby County District Attorney General’s Office hosted a public-safety
summit, which was not open to the general public, with elected officials and
community stakeholders at which
they agreed on initiatives to
combat crime in Memphis.
Shelby County District Attorney General Steve Mulroy said
officials came to a consensus
on public safety priorities during the meeting.
“I think the consistent message from all of us and several others … is that
we all recognize that we have
a serious crime problem,”
Mulroy said. “We have a
crime crisis right now,
and it requires an all-hands-on-deck approach to tackle the problem.”
Mulroy said there are some issues dealing with violent crime officials will work
independently on, but there are other initiatives, which are evidence-based,
they can work on collaboratively.
Taylor said there was also a lot of discussion about
how to help law enforcement
use the tools they have while also keeping the criminal justice system fair and
just, “not only about
how do we treat defendants, but there was also a healthy discussion about the
victims.”
dailymemphian.com
The Army We're All Fighting & Who's Facilitating
Massive ORC Nationwide
LA Times Sept. 21, 2023
How many people work for the Mexican drug cartels? Researchers have an answer
 Now
researchers have come up with
an estimate: 175,000.
That figure, which would make
the cartels the country’s
fifth-largest employer,
has steadily risen during the last decade, according to their study, which was
published Thursday in the journal Science and relied on a variety of data to
build a mathematical model of the workforce.
Though cartels have been chronicled in television series, books and high-profile
criminal cases, much about them remains unknown. Estimates of annual profits
start at $6 billion and spiral upward.
And
cartels long ago branched beyond drug trafficking into
other lucrative rackets,
including extortion, kidnapping, fuel theft and migrant smuggling. That implies
a vast economy — and a huge labor force.
The head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Anne Milgram, told
Congress in July that
Mexico’s two most powerful criminal organizations — the Sinaloa cartel and the
Jalisco New Generation cartel — had almost 45,000 members, associates,
facilitators and brokers in more than 100 countries.
For the Science paper, researchers crunched statistics on incarceration and
casualties during the past decade to arrive at their estimate. They found that
Mexican cartels must recruit between 350 and 370 people each week to replenish
the ranks diminished by losses from arrests and murder.
Being a cartel worker
is “like playing Russian roulette,” Prieto-Curiel said.
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Spike in 'Strategic Cargo Theft'
Kentucky Cargo Theft Spike Echoes National Issues
Strategic Thefts Direct Cargo Away From Intended
Recipient
Kentucky law enforcement is warning of
a spike in strategic cargo
thefts in a trend that reflects a growing national problem.
The
Kentucky State Police have opened 12 active cases into strategic cargo theft
activities since Aug. 1. That compared to a total of five between the first case
in 2014 up through 2022. Its vehicle investigation branch has identified at
least two crews that
are primarily responsible for the recent rise.
They’ve been double brokering loads through legitimate carriers.
Verisk Analytics’ CargoNet
found in its second-quarter report that strategic tactics drove a 57%
year-over-year increase in supply chain risk
events across North America.
“They’re derivatives of two different crime rings” said
Keith Lewis,
vice president of operations at CargoNet. “Deception
is used to steal the loads,”
he added, noting, “Some of the commodities that come out of Kentucky are very
valuable.”
ttnews.com
A City's Drug Market Run By the Cartels
Directly
SF Chronicle July 10, 2023:
The City by the Bay saw
84 deaths in August, with 66 of them involving the deadly drug fentanyl.
This year is on pace to exceed 2020’s deaths,
which hit a record high of 725,
according to reports by San Francisco officials. More than 560 users have
died this year and another 300 are expected to die by the end of the year.
The drug crisis has become so normalized in the
city that a man lay twitching on Mission Street for minutes before anyone
realized he was overdosing.
Open-air drug markets are the norm in the Democrat-led city
and streets are filled with addicts overdosing and
walking around like zombies on tranq.
San Francisco police have attempted to thwart the drug markets
in high-profile areas, such as the Tenderloin. Police have seized 100 pounds
of fentanyl between June and September.
In addition, more than 1,000 people have been arrested for
the use or sale of narcotics,
according to police.
nypost.com
Chicago's Response to the City's Crime Closures?
Chicago mayor proposes city-owned grocery stores as Walmart, Whole Foods exits
leave ‘food deserts’
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said he
wants to open city-owned
grocery stores to serve neighborhoods that have become “food deserts” after four
Walmart stores and a Whole Foods closed.
Johnson announced last week that his administration would partner with the
nonprofit advocacy group Economic Security Project to put stores in underserved
areas of the city — a
proposal Republicans called something out of “Soviet-style central planning.“
Four other Chicago Walmarts are still open, which the chain said in a
statement “continue
to face the same business difficulties,
but we think this decision gives us the best chance to help keep them open and
serving the community.”
Last November, Whole
Foods closed in Englewood
after six years in the South Side lot — one year before Whole Foods’ seven-year
lease was up with its landlord, DL3 Realty.
Only time will tell if
a government-owned grocery store
would fill the vacant lot instead, though Johnson’s administration still
reportedly needs to conduct a feasibility study before providing a timeline of
actually opening these stores.
nypost.com
Editorial: Mall shootings add to public’s growing unease
Oregon mass shootings drop as US numbers climb
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How Mature is Your ESRM Program?
The enterprise
security risk management (ESRM)
philosophy can apply to any organization—large or small, public or private. But
it can be challenging to map out a path from the initial introduction to
mature implementation.
Thankfully, members of the ASIS ESRM steering committee
spent two years building an
ESRM maturity model to measure current efforts
and enable security practitioners to guide their organizations to the next level
of risk management.
The maturity model self-assessment, which is
available for free,
walks users through the continuum of how an organization can meet its ESRM-related
goals and procedures, says Jacob Maenner, CPP, PSP, ESRM steering committee
member and chair of the maturity model committee.
The five elements within the ESRM maturity model are culture, context,
stakeholders, risk management, and ESRM governance. There are five levels of
implementation: initial, repeatable, defined, managed, and optimized.
asisonline.org
Editor's Note:
There's only been a very few LP/AP executives in retail that formerly assumed
the enterprise risk management role and developed their programs accordingly.
A few years ago ASIS formerly restructured their entire focus on enterprise risk
and evolved globally.
Certainly, 'Total
Retail Loss',
developed in 2016 by Professor Adrian Beck with the ECR Retail Loss Group in the
UK, and in 2019 revised to
Total Retail Loss 2.0: From Theory to Practice”
which built on the ground-breaking research commissioned by the
RILA Asset Protection Leaders
Council in partnership
with Professor Adrian
Beck from the University of Leicester in the UK,
which has become the academic model for retail loss prevention executives.
While ESRM doesn't go as deep into retail loss, it does broaden one's vision and
responsibilities across an enterprise. And some would say is similar if not the
exactly the same as a Chief Security Officer, CSO. - Gus Downing
Mohawk is the world’s
largest flooring company with $11.7B in 2022 Worldwide Sales and 25,000+
Retail & Commercial Customers
In 2019, Mohawk launched a large, multi-year IT
project and outsourced work for the IT project to IT consulting firms. The
indictment alleges that the defendants secretly organized and controlled a
Georgia company, Meta Technology Platforms, LLC (“Meta Tech”), and
used their positions at Mohawk to retain Meta Tech as a Mohawk vendor and divert
Mohawk’s outsourced IT consulting work to Meta Tech.
Between approximately May and October of 2022,
Meta Tech submitted invoices to Mohawk totaling approximately $3,034,411.
The invoices that Meta Tech submitted to Mohawk did not disclose the defendants’
relationship to Meta Tech. The invoices also allegedly charged Mohawk for
services that had not been performed, for software that had not been provided,
and at inflated hourly rates that Kanyadan approved on Mohawk’s behalf.
Mohawk paid Meta Tech approximately $1,857,741.40 based on these fraudulent
invoices. justice.gov
Editors Note: Seems like CIO fraud
has become quite prevalent. If not over taking the finance driven
fraud with fake invoicing. In my opinion it's simply a matter of three
factors. 1. Opportunity; Virtually no one in most organizations have
the subject matter expertise to truly be able to monitor and critically analyze
what they're doing (It's almost like the old commercial "Let Mikey Do It").
2: It's the #1 critical need and usually the #1 capital expense of every
organization. Or lag behind in this digital transformation era and let
your competition eat you for lunch. Finally #3; To anyone outside
of the IT world it's a "money pit" without a bottom. And that's scary.
Just my observations Gus Downing
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Axis Body Worn Camera Solutions
How body worn cameras will lead to smarter, safer cities
 By
Andreas Göransson, Manager, End Customer Marketing
- Axis Communications
With our
body worn camera solutions, we have an eye not only on the immediate
benefits body worn cameras can bring to law enforcement and private security
companies, but other areas of life where the presence of a body worn camera can
have a positive impact.
The urban environment is an obvious place where body worn cameras will have a
significant and increasing presence, and once which will help cities reach goals
in security and safety. Indeed, as a greater proportion of the world’s
population increasingly lives in cities, safety and security are high on the
agenda of citizens in relation to the perception of a city’s livability and
attractiveness.
Capturing evidence and affecting behavior
The presence of a body worn camera can improve behavior of both citizens and the
wearer of the camera, which can not only reduce the number of incidents, but
also the number of complaints against officers. Both are positive factors in the
sense of city livability.
In addition, footage from body worn cameras can be extremely useful in
situational training and evaluation. Using real-world footage of the management
of incidents – including both seeing and hearing how law enforcement or security
personnel managed a particular situation – greatly enhances the brings to life
the theoretical taught in the classroom.
Body worn beyond law enforcement and security
Unfortunately, a fact of urban life can be verbal and physical abuse of workers
perceived to be in positioning of authority, or a focal point of citizen
frustration. Public transport operatives and ticket inspectors, emergency
services personnel, healthcare professionals, teachers, utility workers and many
others can become targets for aggression and abuse, and while it’s often borne
out of citizen frustration and stress, it is clearly entirely inappropriate.
 The
mere presence of a body worn camera and the knowledge that a citizen is being
filmed can have a calming effect, reducing the likelihood of an incident
escalating to abuse and violence and overall levels of antisocial behavior. The
increased feeling of safety and security for the wearer should also not be
underestimated, and their increased confidence in doing their job can lead to
more positive interactions with the public. And again, the footage from body
worn cameras can be an invaluable enhancement to training courses for employees
across multiple city functions and roles.
We’re early into our journey into the body worn camera segment, but the
potential for improving the lives of citizens and workers in our urban
environments is clear and exciting.
Read the full article here
Do you have a smart
city agenda? Here is eight key reasons why Axis is the perfect solution provider
to your smart city:
Read the 2022/23 Axis Smart City Magazine |
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Virtual Event: 20 Years of Cybersecurity Awareness Month
Cybersecurity Awareness Month Kicks Off in October
Wednesday, October 4 at 2:00 p.m. ET
 This
October marks the 20th Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and it presents the
perfect moment to reflect on how far we’ve come and how much more we want to
accomplish! October is dedicated to ensuring everyone has the resources to stay
safe and secure online.
Still, there is more to do. The public and private sectors continue to come
together to secure technology, protect critical infrastructure and bridge the
cybersecurity careers gap. In honor of 20 years of Cybersecurity Awareness
Month, elected officials, government leaders and industry executives will join
to examine how far we’ve come and look at where we need to go.
Featured Speakers:
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Congressman Andrew R.
Garbarino (R-NY-02)
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Congressman
Eric Swalwell (D-CA-15)
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Tatyana Bolton, Security
Policy Manager, Security Center of Excellence, Google
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Joanna
Huisman, Senior Vice President of Strategic Insights and Research, KnowBe4
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Megha Malhotra, Senior
Technical Program Manager, Amazon
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Bobbie Stempfley, VP,
Product Groups, Business Unit Security Officer, Security & Resiliency
Organization, Dell Technologies
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Rusty Waldron, Vice
President, Chief Business Security Officer, ADP
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Lisa Plaggemier,
Executive Director, National Cybersecurity Alliance
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More Speakers TBA
Click here to register
Consumer Data Exposed by T-Mobile?
T-Mobile Racks Up Third Consumer Data Exposure of 2023
The mobile company states that the issue was due to a glitch that occurred in an
update.
Multiple T-Mobile USA customers have gone to social media to report
seeing the sensitive
information of other customers when logging in to view their personal account.
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leaked data includes credit card balances, purchase history, credit card
information, device IDs, and home addresses. The issue was initially severe
enough that the
T-Mobile subreddit requested users to stop sharing information via social media.
"ATTENTION: We are
aware of the security issue going on. For security reasons, we are not allowing
posts on the topic,"
the post read. "Please do not post any information about the ongoing issue.
We're waiting to hear from T-Mobile and do not want to exacerbate the issue."
As of Sept. 20,
T-Mobile said that the issue has been resolved
and was due to a "technology update" glitch.
"There
was no cyberattack or breach at T-Mobile.
This was a temporary
system glitch related
to a planned overnight technology update involving limited account information
for fewer than 100 customers, which was quickly resolved," said Tara Darrow,
T-Mobile spokesperson, in a statement.
While this may come as a relief for some, to others it may only further raise
concerns about whether
T-Mobile has questionable cybersecurity safeguards, due to the company facing
multiple breaches this year alone.
darkreading.com
'No Indication that TransUnion Systems Were
Breached'
TransUnion denies it was hacked, links leaked data to 3rd party
Credit reporting firm TransUnion has denied claims of a security breach after a
threat actor known as USDoD leaked data allegedly stolen from the company's
network. The
Chicago-based company's over 10,000 employees provide their services to millions
of consumers and more than 65,000 businesses
from 30 countries.
"Immediately upon discovering these assertions, we partnered with outside
cybersecurity and forensic experts to launch a thorough investigation," the
company said. "At this time,
we and our internal and
external experts have found no indication that TransUnion systems have been
breached or that data
has been exfiltrated from our environment."
The investigation into the claims found that the information leaked by USDoD was
likely obtained from another organization's systems, given that the data and its
formatting are different than TransUnion's.
"Through our investigation, we have found that multiple aspects of the messages
– including the data, formatting, and fields –
do not match the data content
or formats at TransUnion, indicating that any such data came from a third party,"
TransUnion said.
bleepingcomputer.com
MGM Restores Casino Operations 10 Days After Cyberattack
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End of Free Online Returns?
Amazon, H&M and others start charging for drop-offs
If you’ve recently tried to return something you bought online, you might notice
that getting your money back is a little different than in the past.
Return policies are changing,
and the days of free returns may be numbered.
 Amazon
set the standard for online shopping with fast delivery and free returns but
now,
they are cutting
back on return drop-offs to UPS stores.
According to Forbes,
Amazon customers who live near Whole Foods, Amazon Fresh, or Kohl’s locations
will be charged a dollar
now if they return items via a UPS Store. And that move could have ripple
effects.
"I'm hearing that some
retailers are starting to charge for returns and that includes DSW, ZARA, and
H&M," said shopping
expert Trae Bodge. "And my expectation is that this is going to grow."
Brands like Gap and
Banana Republic have shortened their return windows.
Anthropologie and REI,
are now charging a fee
for mailed returns.
"Returns
are very expensive for retailers,"
Bodge continued. "A return can cost a retailer upwards of ten dollars. You might
experience a happy situation where the retailer will say, just keep it, and I
will credit you anyway. And I'm also seeing that retailers are not offering free
returns as much anymore. So you have to be prepared to pay for you return in
some cases. What I think is going to happen because of this is,
we'll see a slight decrease in
online shopping and a return to in-store shopping."
Bodge expects we will still buy our staples like paper towels, diapers, and
toilet paper online, but we may
return to buying clothing in a
real store, where we can try it on before buying.
The best advice when shopping
online: take a moment to
review your order and the store's return policy
before you press send.
wjla.com
Stooping down to drop off a package and boom -
Never saw it coming
Fla. Deputy Captures Rattlesnake that Bit Amazon Driver During Delivery
The very large rattlesnake,
coiled up near the front door, struck as the driver bent down to set the package
down. She immediately
fell ill and called 9-1-1 for help.
 At
last report, the woman was listed in “very serious condition,” according to the
sheriff’s office.
Photos show a Martin County deputy wrangling the snake, still on the front porch
of the home.
“Our thoughts are with the driver and we hope for a full recovery after this
frightening incident,” Amazon spokesperson Branden Baribeau said in a statement.
Eastern Diamondbacks
are common to the southeastern U.S. and are
the longest, heaviest venomous snake in North America,
according to the
Smithsonian.
It’s known for its iconic rattle and venomous bite,
which can be fatal to humans.
They average
3 to 6 feet in length, with some reaching up to eight feet,
and can live for 20 years or more.
officer.com
AI's Impact on Amazon
Amazon to crack down on self-publishers using AI-generated content
Publishers will not have to notify Amazon if works
are only assisted by the use of artificial intelligence
Amazon will require publishers on Kindle to
disclose when any of their
content is generated by artificial intelligence after complaints
forced the company to take action.
"We require you to
inform us of AI-generated content
(text, images or translations) when you publish a new book or make edits to and
republish an existing book through KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). AI-generated
images include cover and interior images and artwork," Amazon said of the
updated guidelines, according to a report in Cyber News.
The update comes after the company faced complaints from users that some works
being sold under the names of human writers contained
content that was either fully
or partially generated by AI,
according to the report.
foxnews.com
Amazon announces $3.5 billion in new investment in Central Ohio
Family Dollar to release refreshed mobile app
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A burglary suspect in a Chicago suburb was released from jail Thursday, after allegedly stealing tens of thousands of dollars in items from a high-end boutique. The DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office said in a Facebook post that Terry Johnson, 30, was released from jail Thursday after allegedly stealing $68,000 in merchandise from Kelsey Resale Boutique in Hinsdale, Illinois, May 24. An investigation revealed that Johnson and six accomplices broke into the store with a sledgehammer at 1:19 a.m., and then stole an assortment of purses and other merchandise.
A judge ordered that Johnson wear a GPS monitoring device and remain at least 1,000 feet away from the boutique. He’s being charged with armed violence and burglary. The suspects fled the area afterward, but investigators found blood evidence near the front door, which was sent for analysis. A DNA profile consistent with Johnson was returned Aug. 15. Johnson was taken into custody on Sept. 20 without incident and released one day later. He is on parole for armed robbery and aggravated battery out of Cook County, prosecutors said. DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin said in a statement that Johnson’s release shows an issue with the newly-passed SAFE-T Act, which eliminates cash bail.
A man was recently arrested after police say he was caught stealing dozens of Lego sets from two Target stores within a two-month period. Alan Horvatich is facing one count of organized retail theft after he was arrested on Tuesday, September 19 at a Target located near Maryland and Flamingo. Investigators later found that Horvatich was involved in 13 other theft events from July 25 through September 11 at the same Target he was arrested at and other near Spring Mountain and Rainbow. According to the arrest report, he was accompanied by an unidentified Hispanic/White female adult, with police detailing the thefts as "clearly pre-planned and were committed within minutes of entering the stores."
Three Lowndes County people have been arrested and a fourth is being sought after a felony shoplifting incident along Booneville’s central business corridor. Booneville police investigators responded to a business on North Second Street on Sept. 19 to investigate a reported shoplifting that involved a felony amount of merchandise. The investigation has led to three arrests and police are actively searching for a fourth suspect.
Brooke Synclair Ross, 29, of Columbus, was charged with felony shoplifting, conspiracy to commit a crime, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon — all felonies. She is still under investigation for additional charges and bond has not been set. Derek Maurice Stokes, 50, of Columbus, was charged with attempted shoplifting, conspiracy to commit a crime, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. His bond was set at $100,000. Daniella Joyce Lena Collins, 37, of Columbus, was charged with attempted felony shoplifting, conspiracy to commit a crime, and possession of a firearm by a felon. She is currently under the supervision of the Mississippi Department of Corrections. Bond on the new charges was set at $60,000 during her initial court appearance. Authorities are still searching for Remond Montice Coney, 46, of Columbus. He is wanted for charges stemming from this investigation and remains at large.
Authorities are looking for two suspects in connection to a grand retail theft, the Gilroy Police Department (GPD) said Thursday. Police said a “great deal of office supplies” were stolen from a store. GPD did not specify which store. The total amount these suspects allegedly stole is worth more than $1,000, according to GPD.
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Shootings & Deaths
A teenager died after a shooting Wednesday night in a gas station parking lot in Aurora, according to police. The Aurora Police Department said Wednesday evening that a man was taken to the hospital after being shot in the parking lot of a Conoco station near East Hampden Avenue and South Tower Road just after 6:30 p.m. Police said his injuries were life-threatening. The victim later died at the hospital. On Thursday, the Arapahoe County Coroner's Office identified him as 17-year-old Donovan Armando Sandoval and classified his death as a homicide. Police said they arrested Allentino Barroso, 18, early Thursday morning on suspicion of second-degree murder. The circumstances are still under investigation, police said.
A former Popeye’s employee is in custody after he reportedly walked off the job, only to return and fire a gunshot into the drive-through window. According to court documents, Las Vegas police received multiple calls at approximately 7:46 p.m. on September 7 in reference to a shooting at a Popeye’s restaurant on the 4800 block of W. Sunset Rd. The callers said that a former employee there, later identified as David Jerron Bravo, had walked up to the drive-through window and fired one shot into it. One of the callers said she was the manager at the restaurant and that she had fired Bravo earlier in the evening, at approximately 5:33 p.m. She said that she saw the suspect at the window “holding what appeared to be a silver handgun.”
Metro officers arrived on the scene, spoke to witnesses and reviewed surveillance video from a nearby business. Bravo was reportedly upset regarding a scheduling change and got into an argument with another employee around 2 p.m. He said that he was going to walk out if his shift was changed. A manager advised Bravo that if he walked out, his employment would be terminated. The suspect eventually walked out and there was no further contact with him until he returned at approximately 7:42 p.m, parking a black Dodge Challenger in the store’s east parking lot. Bravo allegedly exited the car and walked to the drive-through window. The report said he “brandished a handgun from his waistband and began knocking on the drive-thru window with it.” Employees moved away from the window at the sight of the gun and while they did so, the suspect fired once into the window, shattering it.
Robberies,
Incidents & Thefts
The Beginning of the Fraudsters Crime Cycle -
USPS Has Become a Huge Target
Across the U.S. Robberies of Postal Carriers &
Theft of Mail Has Skyrocketed
DOJ: Ocala Men Sentenced 14 Yrs. For Robbery Spree of Postal Carriers
 Orlando,
Florida - Jacoby Jules Colon (20, Ocala) and Darius Rodney Capers (Ocala, 19) in
connection with their robbery spree of postal carriers. Colon was sentenced to
10 years in federal prison for conspiracy to rob postal carriers, armed
postal robbery, and brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
Capers was sentenced to 4
years and 9 months in federal prison for conspiracy to rob postal
carriers and attempted robbery of a postal carrier. Both had pleaded guilty in
July 2023.
justice.gov
July 25, 2023 NPR News: A jump in robberies of USPS carriers is prompting agency
to expand safety measures
Attacks against postal carriers are up, and so is mail theft.
The U.S. Postal Service is
expanding safety measures, but do they go far enough?
More than 412 were accosted
last year and just over 305 in first half of 2023. The agency has
expanded a crime prevention
initiative known as
Project Safe Delivery in an effort to protect postal workers and
their packages. Additionally, the agency reported an
increase in high volume mail
theft incidents from mail receptacles including blue collection boxes:
38,500 in FY22 and more than 25,000 in the first half
of FY23.
The Inspection Service offers
rewards of up to $50,000 for information leading to arrests and convictions.
Project Safe Delivery includes more extensive steps. They're
installing thousands of high-security collection boxes to make it harder for
thieves to steal mail. They'll also replace about 49,000 so-called arrow keys -
that are used to open blue mailboxes - with electronic locks. It's those keys
criminals want to steal checks and other items.
The Postal Inspection Service investigates crimes against letter carriers. In an
effort to track down people who are targeting them, it runs appeals, seeking the
public's help online.
npr.com
May 12, 2023 USPS Rolls Out Project Safe Delivery
Joint Project Safe Delivery initiative focused on reducing letter carrier
robberies and mail theft; preventing change of address fraud; defeating
counterfeit postage.
12,000 High Security Blue
Collection Boxes To Be Installed Nationwide.
49,000 Electronic Locks to Replace Antiquated Arrow Locks.
Preventing Change of Address
Fraud - The Postal Service processed more than 33 million change of
address (COA) transactions in FY22. The majority of COA frauds are
driven by an identity
theft motive
separate from the Postal Service. The Postal Service is not the intended target
but implicated as the
fraudster intercepts financially oriented mail, credit cards or checks.
usps.com
Editor's Note: We've
not reported on this in the past. However with the increase in fraud both in the
stores and online we wanted to report on one large piece of its origin separate
from the Dark Web. As these crimes feed the fraudsters with the data to begin
their crime cycle. -Gus Downing
Robbed Dollar General and a Family Dollar
store holding a semiautomatic pistol and intentionally terrified employees.
A GPS tracker was installed inside some of the money taken from the
Dollar General and law enforcement apprehended them while the two suspects
were changing clothing.
Brown was sentenced to 19.5 years in prison
and Booker was sentenced to 5 years in prison for their roles. Horne was
previously sentenced on April 13 to 12 years in prison.
justice.gov
A 44-year-old woman is accused of deliberately striking a Kenosha grocery store employee with a vehicle in the store's parking lot after attempting to steal an item.
Rebecca A. Farrar, of New Auburn, is charged in Kenosha County Circuit Court with felonies of second-degree recklessly endangering safety, bail jumping and hit-and-run involving injury, along with misdemeanor retail theft.
As the man was taking a picture of the woman's license plate, standing just off to the side of the passenger side of the vehicle, the woman suddenly put the vehicle in drive and accelerated, striking the man in his knees and causing him pain and visible injury, according to the complaint. She then allegedly drove away. A court commissioner issued a $5,000 arrest warrant for Farrar on Thursday. The Loss Prevention Agent was taken to a clinic for care.
A Binghamton woman appeared before the Broome County Court for sentencing after pleading guilty to felony Attempted Burglary in the Third Degree. Broome County District Attorney Mike Korchak announced that Jamie Walsh, 38, was sentenced to two to four years in prison after she admitted to stealing merchandise from the Vestal Walmart on March 14. Walsh had previously been arrested for shoplifting at that same location and was ordered to stay out of the store.
French police arrested 13 people following an investigation into “the large-scale theft and trafficking” of cars from Europe to West Africa. More than 170 vehicles were “stolen on demand” by car thieves in France following “orders” placed by the scheme’s “coordinators,” according to a Sept. 20 news release from France’s National Judicial Police via INTERPOL. The stolen cars were driven across Europe — “often by minors” — to ports in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, police said. From the ports, officials said vehicles were hidden “in cargo containers and shipped to West Africa.” The group behind the scheme included “French, Gambian and Senegalese nationals,” police said.
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- Best Buy – Mount Laurel, NJ – Robbery
- C-Store – Lebanon, PA – Armed Robbery
- C-Store – Pittsburgh, PA – Armed Robbery
- C-Store – Markham, IL – Armed Robbery
- C-Store – Loudoun County, VA – Armed Robbery
- Gas Station – Lyons, NY – Armed Robbery
- Gas Station – Fort Pierce, FL – Armed Robbery
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Jewelry – Lake Wales, FL – Robbery
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Jewelry – Tucson, AZ – Armed Robbery
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Jewelry – Columbia, MD – Robbery
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Jewelry – Humble, TX – Robbery
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Jewelry – Richmond Heights, MO – Robbery
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Jewelry – Houston, TX – Robbery
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Jewelry – Durham, NC – Robbery
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Jewelry – Tampa, FL - Robbery
- Marijuana – Maple Valley, MO - Burglary 3rd time
- Office – Gilroy, CA – Robbery
- Pawn – Miami, FL – Burglary
- Restaurant – Philadelphia, PA – Armed Robbery
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