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Lewis Jones named Senior Manager of Global
Security for Lowe's Companies
Lewis has played a role in the LP/AP field for over a decade since he started
with Target in 1998 as APBP. Prior to his promotion to Senior Manager Global
Security for Lowe's Companies, he served as a Regional Loss Prevention Director
for JCPenney for more than three years. Before that, he spent nearly six years
as a Store Manager for The Home Depot. Earlier in his career, he spent 12 years
with Target. Congratulations, Lewis!
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On October 8th the IAI Midwest Chapter held its second meeting of
2019 in Itasca, IL. The meeting had special guest speaker Julie Kratz,
who presented on being an Inclusive Leader and how the approach was
linked back to interviewing. Wayne Hoover, CFI was also present and
facilitated round table discussions on several interview topics and
common interview pain points.
A special thank you to the team at Office Depot for hosting the meeting
and the team at Gap Inc. for sponsoring lunch. Congrats to Oscar
Martinez (Old Navy) for being the lucky recipient of the CFI Online Prep
drawing courtesy of the team at IAI.
Thanks to Jay Ganal, CFI, CORCI - Loss Prevention Manager, Upper Midwest
(Athleta / Banana Republic / Gap), for submitting this GLPS.
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ADT Further Expands Mobile Reach with Lyft Partnership
 Boca
Raton, Fla., Oct. 14, 2019 -
ADT, a leading security and automation provider serving residential and
business customers, today announced
a
partnership to integrate mobile safety solutions into the Lyft platform.
Extending ADT's safety and technology to mobile applications will bring an
additional layer of security to Lyft's rideshare experience.
With ADT's mobile safety platform, Lyft seeks to give riders and drivers more
peace of mind. The pilot will focus on an ADT-powered safety feature within the
Lyft app that will discreetly connect Lyft users who feel unsafe - by voice or
SMS chat - with a security professional at one of ADT's owned and operated
monitoring centers. After contacting the user, or if there is no response, the
ADT security professional will alert authorities as needed so they can arrive at
the user's location, equipped with detailed incident information.
Read more in the Press Release column below
Johnson Controls adds WaveLynx Technologies' Ethos Multi-Tech readers to access
control portfolio
Johnson Controls
is introducing the Ethos line of multi-tech contactless access readers from
WaveLynx Technologies. Ethos readers are equipped with a choice of credential
technologies, enabling customers to choose migration paths to deploy secure
credentials.
swhouse.com
"'I'm Out': PG&E Blackouts Stagger Californians"
No Power No POS - Food Spoilage - Curfews
Impacting Grocery Stores - Malls - All of Retail
California residents have come face-to-face with an uncomfortable new
reality: Large swaths of the state-by itself the fifth-largest economy in
the world, and home to the globe's most technologically advanced companies-may
be subject to the sort of abrupt blackouts normally associated with
underdeveloped countries.
The state's three big investor-owned utilities now have regulatory permission to
cut off power to parts of their service territories during strong winds to
reduce the risk of their electric lines causing wildfires,
"We are seeing the scale and scope of something that no state in the 21st
century should experience," Gov. Gavin Newsom said speaking Thursday in Mather,
Calif. "What's happened is unacceptable, and it has happened because of
neglect."
Last week, PG&E became the only U.S. utility ever to have initiated a
weather-related shut-off of such size and duration, affecting nearly 750,000
homes and businesses across 34 counties. By Sunday, PG&E said it had restored
power to all customers hit by the blackouts.
The economic costs are likely to be muted, at least for now. The first two days
of the shut-off for PG&E's residential and commercial customers could cost
the state economy between $65 million and $2.5 billion.
If the blackouts continue on for much longer the economic toll will mount,
particularly if businesses feel this will be an endemic problem.
In Morgan Hill, a small city south of San Jose, police said they were enforcing
a nighttime curfew to prevent criminals from taking advantage of the
power outage.
wsj.com
When Will Next One Hit?
Dark Shops, Spotty Phones, Rotting Fish: Life in a Mass Blackout
I passed pharmacies, banks, a coffee shop and several office buildings on my way
to the bus stop in Oakland. All dark. A Lucky supermarket was among the few with
lights on. A trailer-sized, backup generator parked in its lot. A worker at the
local doughnut shop greeted patrons with: "No coffee, just donuts." With the
credit card machines down, I paid for my glazed twist with a $5 bill. It's a
cash economy in the Bay Area now.
bloomberg.com
One Massive Blackout Is Over, Now California Braces for the Next
 California
has six weeks left in the wildfire season -- a time punctuated by dry, hot
weather and high winds that have for years been the fuel for deadly and
devastating blazes. While both PG&E and California state officials alike
acknowledged that the shutoffs that began on Wednesday could have been better
orchestrated, neither questioned their need.
When they'll go dark again is Mother Nature's call, Johnson said. "It really is
weather-dependent -- where the wind is, where the conditions are."
Governor Gavin Newsom has blasted PG&E over the shutoffs, saying the company
should have been more surgical -- and never would've been in this situation if
it had invested in its infrastructure more heavily. He also called on state
utility regulators to review PG&E's actions.
bloomberg.com
Domino's Is Using A.I. Surveillance to Manage Store Performance
Insisted It's Not Surveillance Technology But Rather A Training Tool
The company's 'pizza checker' makes sure your order is right, but also
pinpoints low performing stores.
The multinational pizza chain has been rolling out its "DOM
Pizza Checker" - a scanning device that looks straight out of Minority
Report - to identify "bad pizzas" and stores with "poor customer outcomes" in
Australia and New Zealand. This is according to a slide deck that Domino's
executives Don Meij and Nick Knight presented to shareholders in both countries
this week. The deck
is available on Domino's website and was
first reported on Thursday by iTnews, which perfectly described it as "the
great pizza panopticon."
The deck notes that it could be used for "franchisee and operations team
alignment," with the device being incorporated into a cash bonus system. There
will be "1:1 followups for stores falling behind peers," it adds. In the future,
Domino's wants the scanner to differentiate crust types and to "display pizza
checker scores as a live feed on the makeline to empower team members."
Domino's insisted that DOM Pizza Checker is not a surveillance technology
but rather a training tool. Its spokesperson said there is no punishment for not
using the device, though the executive's slide deck suggested it would be used
to pinpoint low-performing stores.
onezero.medium.com
Man Hurt in Florida's Town Center Mall Panic Sunday, but No Sign of Shooting,
Police Say
 Shoppers
fled the Town Center mall in Boca Raton, Fla., after hearing a loud noise in the
food court. Panicked shoppers fled a South Florida mall on Sunday after
believing they heard gunshots, prompting police S.W.A.T. teams and federal
agents to lock down the commercial center for several hours - but the
authorities later said there was no evidence of a shooting.
"These things are always evolving," Chief Alexander said, adding that a "bang"
or loud noise near the food court prompted the panic. "There's something that
happened inside that mall that caused people to get concerned, a lot of people."
Some shoppers
said on Twitter that they were holed up inside the mall for several hours.
A man hit his head on a door as he tried to evacuate the building, according to
the police, who said the man was being treated at a local hospital. Several
other people had minor injuries, the police said.
The scare happened around 3 p.m. at the Town Center at Boca Raton, an upscale
shopping mall about an hour north of Miami and right off Interstate 95. It was
the latest unfounded report of a shooting at a public place since mass shootings
in Odessa, Tex.; Dayton, Ohio; and El Paso, where a gunman killed 22 people at a
Walmart in August.
nytimes.com
Amazon calls for federal regulation of facial recognition and national data
protection law
Amazon refers to the guidelines it proposed for responsible use of facial
recognition and new legislation early in 2019, and says national legislation is
needed "that protects individual civil rights and ensures that governments are
transparent in their application of the technology."
These measures are unlikely to satisfy critics, who will point out that one of
the few U.S. police forces known to use Rekognition has admitted it does not
follow Amazon's guidance.
biometricupdate.com
Amazon Says Its Delivery Drones Won't Crash Into You or Your Clotheslines.
Here's Why
These UAVs won't just be powered by propellers and motors, but by machine
learning, Amazon chief technology officer Werner Vogels explained Thursday in a
keynote presentation at
World
Summit A.I. in Amsterdam.
"Safety is the most important thing. We use many different sensors to
ensure it doesn't crash into anything, or that any other bad things will
happen," he says. The e-commerce giant will equip the drones with its computer
vision algorithms so that when it finally gets the regulatory green-light to
launch the service, the winged machines will be able to land at the correct
door step without bumping into anything.
 Vogels
shared a number of examples of what the drone could encounter en-route: all
manner of flying objects, clothes lines and power lines, and, closer to the
ground, humans and their pets. Its eyes will be cameras and sensors built with a
combination of stereoscopic, image segmentation and heat-mapping technologies
that ensure it avoids trouble on the way to the landing zone outside your front
door.
The drones can carry packages weighing up to five to seven pounds. That turns
out to be convenient as more than 70% of Amazon deliveries weigh in at about
that payload, he said. Delivery is expected to take no more than 30 minutes.
The company wants to corner the market on the kind of machine-learning
technologies it's developed for its drones-as well as for its Amazon Go
retail format and on its shopping site.
fortune.com
The Customer Facing Conundrum - Hits Lowe's & Target
Leaked documents reveal details on Target's 'modernization' plan
Store workers say has backfired spectacularly
"The journey to activate a sales culture with knowledgeable, experienced and
passionate teams who are blending service and task is well underway," the Target
sorting and stocking implementation guide for backroom processes for apparel and
accessories says. A former salaried executive at an East Coast Target received
this 54-page rollout guide in August 2018 and said it was sent to other store
directors and executives. The former employee described the guide as "the bible"
for how changes were to be implemented in Target stores.
Business Insider spoke with over 50 former and current Target workers, many of
whom said that the modernization program has changed their stores for the
worse, making their jobs unbearably stressful and, in some cases, unsafe.
Target stores are getting surprise visits from company inspectors and
managers following workers' reports of unsafe backrooms.
Target confirmed some backroom and overnight shifts had been eliminated
in stores throughout the country. With fewer people devoted to specific jobs
in the back, many other workers said they were being forced to pick up the
slack as they try to keep up with a workload they did not originally sign up
for. This, on top of the changes in stocking processes, has caused problems for
workers in Target stores across the country.
At least 13 workers said their backrooms became increasingly unsafe as a result
of the shift changes from modernization.
"Our store leaders and team members undergo mandatory safety training every year
and we invest in the technology, tools and processes that keep our stores safe
and ensure we comply with all federal safety guidelines. We work quickly to
investigate and remedy issues anytime we receive safety-related concerns from
our team members," the company said in a statement last week.
businessinsider.com
Outside of Trump Administration - Everybody Else is Giving in to China
From the NBA to Apple to Facebook
Apple Removes App That Helps Hong Kong Protesters Track the Police
Companies
ranging from Marriott to United Airlines to Versace have also backtracked on
perceived slights to the Chinese government in the past, such as customer
surveys that suggested Taiwan was an independent nation. All the firms are
balancing the enormous economic opportunity in China, with its 1.4 billion
consumers, with the negative public image of capitulating to an authoritarian
government.
nytimes.com
Ross Opens 42 New Locations (30 Ross & 12 dd's DISCOUNTS)
Sears Continues to Struggle After Bankruptcy Sales Drops 60% - Closing 100 More
Stores
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ADT Further Expands Mobile Reach with Lyft Partnership
Rider and Driver Safety Enhanced with
Turnkey Ride Sharing Pilot
BOCA
RATON, Fla., Oct. 14, 2019 -
ADT, a leading security and automation provider serving residential and
business customers, today announced a
partnership to integrate mobile safety solutions into the Lyft platform.
Extending ADT's safety and technology to mobile applications will bring an
additional layer of security to Lyft's rideshare experience.
With ADT's mobile safety platform, Lyft seeks to give riders and drivers more
peace of mind. The pilot will focus on an ADT-powered safety feature within the
Lyft app that will discreetly connect Lyft users who feel unsafe - by voice or
SMS chat - with a security professional at one of ADT's owned and operated
monitoring centers. After contacting the user, or if there is no response, the
ADT security professional will alert authorities as needed so they can arrive at
the user's location, equipped with detailed incident information.
"As a rideshare company with an exceptional commitment to rider and driver
safety, Lyft is the ideal partner for ADT," said Jim DeVries, President and CEO
of ADT. "We look forward to working closely with the Lyft team as together we
bring our industry-leading technology to rideshare riders and drivers. We
continue to leverage our deep expertise, technology and the trusted ADT brand to
expand our reach into new areas of security beyond the home and business.
Partnering with Lyft broadens our exposure while enabling ADT to further realize
our mission and belief that people deserve to be safer and more secure wherever
they are."
ADT's data-driven mobile safety solution provides Lyft with a platform to extend
the safety and security of
 ADT's
professional monitoring services to its users within its mobile app experience.
Beginning in early 2020, Lyft intends to pilot the ADT mobile safety solution in
nine U.S. markets including Chicago, Los Angeles and New Jersey, with potential
to implement nationally to Lyft's 30 million riders and 2 million drivers.
"When it comes to safety, there is no better partner for Lyft than ADT," said
Ran Makavy, EVP and Chief Product Officer of Lyft. "We are extremely excited to
enter into this partnership, and look forward to a meaningful, industry-leading
collaboration."
Learn more about the partnership
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Walmart's AI-Powered Cameras Monitoring For Theft
Walmart's 1,500 Data Scientists & Hiring More in Push on AI
3 questions that guide all its AI projects
Walmart is
a leader in the push to adopt artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Chief data officer Bill Groves, who directly oversees a smaller staff of 100
tech workers. Groves also said the company employs around 50,000 software
engineers, though a Walmart spokesperson later said the numbers is closer to
10,000.
Those employees help support the over 100,000 different machine learning or
AI-based projects the organization currently has in production. Among the
applications that Walmart is currently rolling-out are AI-powered cameras to
monitor for theft.
But the success rate for artificial intelligence or machine-learning projects is
still just 75 percent, Groves said at the event. One way Walmart is aiming to
address that is through its core three tenets that guide all the high-tech
initiatives.
"If the answer is 'no' to any of these three, we'll typically put a stop to the
project immediately so that way we aren't spending money that we shouldn't
spend," he said.
1) Why are you doing it? Will someone pay for it? That can include the
company itself, or a vendor that may purchase the application from Walmart. "If
nobody will pay for, then why am I doing it?," he said. "The business has to see
the value, the business has to want it."
2) Can you explain it? Key to that succeeding, however, is software
engineers or data scientists being able to explain tentative or pending
applications to other business units. "If I cannot explain to an executive what
I'm doing, then why am I doing it," Groves said.
3) Can you implement it? The business side must be able to implement it
to ultimately drive down costs or improve profits. "It's a massive challenge
just due to the size and scale we have," Groves said. "Money is being thrown out
the window." Initiatives must have a plan in place to go from development to
production in an affordable way, and it must have buy-in from all parties
involved.
While relatively basic questions, Walmart's approach to AI exemplifies just how
critical cross-collaboration is for advanced tech initiative to succeed - and
how quickly they can fail it there isn't broad support internally.
businessinsider.com
Password Habits Remain Key Obstacle to Business' Security
According to the the 3rd Annual
Global Password Security Report, given that stolen and reused credentials
are linked to
80 percent of hacking-related breaches, businesses must take more action to
improve password and access security to make a big impact on risk reduction.
"Securing employee access has never been more important and unfortunately, we
see businesses ignore password security altogether, or only half-heartedly
attempt to address it,"
securitymagazine.com
How Cybercriminals Continue to Innovate
Europol Report: Ransomware, DDoS, Business Email Compromises Are Persistent
Threats
Online attack threats continue to intensify, with criminals preferring
ransomware, DDoS attacks and business email compromises, warns Europol, the EU's
law enforcement intelligence agency. After numerous successful disruptions by
police, criminals have responded by launching increasingly complex attacks.
Europol sizes up the threat landscape and how it's likely to evolve in its
latest
Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment. The annual report describes how
so many types of cybercrime have become more complex (see:
Darknet Disruption: 'Wall Street Market' Closed for Business).
The widespread failure to patch software vulnerabilities continues to provide
opportunities for criminals, complicating law enforcement efforts, Europol warns
(see:
NSA Is Latest Intelligence Agency to Sound VPN Patch Alarm).
Unfortunately, criminals appear to be adapting quickly to attempts to disrupt
their efforts. "One of the interesting trends that's starting to happen, and
you'll see it talked about in the IOCTA report, is that criminals are aware, and
to say they're running scared is wrong, but they adapt very quickly,"
Woodward tells Information Security Media Group. "They don't innovate unless
they have to."
govinfosecurity.com
Cybercrime is maturing, shifting its focus to larger and more profitable targets
Data is the key element in
cybercrime, both from a crime and an investigate perspective.
These key threats demonstrate the complexity of countering cybercrime and
highlight that
criminals only innovate their criminal behavior when existing modi operandi
have become unsuccessful or more profitable opportunities emerge.
In essence, new threats do not only arise from new technologies but often come
from known vulnerabilities in existing technologies that remain unpatched for
extended periods of time.
Law enforcement must therefore not only focus on the potential impact of future
technological developments in cybercrime, such as artificial intelligence but
also approach cybercrime in a holistic sense, including prevention, awareness
and increasing cyber education and resilience.
Europol's
6th annual Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) offers a unique
law enforcement view of the emerging threats and key developments in the field
of cybercrime over the last year.
helpnetsecurity.com
FBI: Phishing Can Defeat Two-Factor Authentication
Human beings can be tricked. This fact is a hard-to-patch vulnerability in many
systems. And that is the tl;dr version of a notice from the FBI that recently
hit industry groups.
According to the Private Industry Notification, criminals are bypassing
two-factor authentication with a combination of well-known techniques including
social engineering and man-in-the-middle attacks.
In addition to reminding organizations of the dangers of SIM-swapping exploits,
the notice points to two new hacker tools: Mureana (named for a family of eels),
which automates phishing attacks, and NecroBrowser, which helps to hijack a
legitimate authentication session. Together, the tools can turn a victim's
browser into a credential-stealing zombie that gives no notice to the legitimate
user.
The FBI recommends that companies continue to educate users on phishing
techniques and, for especially high-value accounts, use a variety of different
authentication methods with tokens that regularly change.
Read more
here and
here.
darkreading.com
North America the Largest Cyber Security Market Globally
Cyber Security Market 2019 Research Methodology, Business Plans, Development
Status, and Industry Size & Share Forecast to 2024
The cyber security market was valued at USD 119.61 billion in 2018, and
is expected to reach USD 261.07 billion by 2024, at a CAGR of 14.15%
during the forecast period (2019-2024). Cyber security is an integral part of
every single organization across the world. The adoption of cyber security
solutions is expected to grow with the increasing penetration of internet among
the developing and developed countries. Also, the expanding wireless network for
mobile devices has increased data vulnerability, making cyber security an
integral part of every single organization across the world.
bostonlifenews.com
Business Email Compromise - BEC Cyber Scams - Facing 20 Yrs.
Man Convicted for Laundering $3M+ in Proceeds from International Cyber Scams
Walmart debuts shrimp tracking on blockchain
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CEO Of Credit Card Processing Company Charged In $19 Million Credit Card
Laundering Scheme
BRANDON BECKER, the former CEO of CardReady, LLC ("CardReady"), on charges of
fraudulently operating a credit card laundering scheme that enabled access to
the credit card system for certain deceptive businesses, online and
telemarketing. BECKER and his co-conspirators enabled the scheme by creating
dozens of sham merchant accounts and false merchant applications, defrauding an
associated credit card processing company and a federally insured bank into
processing more than $19 million in payments for the scheme.
justice.gov
Research: 62% Of Consumers Worry Their Online Interactions With Quick-Service
Restaurants Are At Risk of Fraud
 In
new research findings, released today, the company found that about 33% of
today's dining experiences involve some type of smart device, making fast
food even faster with pre-order options, in-house kiosks, and new services
competing in the delivery space.
Yet the rise in these convenience-driven programs also introduce possible
security gaps that put consumers at greater risk of fraud, which impacts
customer satisfaction and long term loyalty. To dig deeper into the consumer
perception of quick-service restaurant fraud, Sift surveyed consumers across the
United States about their use of these services, their experiences with QSR
mobile apps, and their concerns about fast food fraud.
Consumers want convenience, not complexity
Almost 40% of consumers in the Sift survey reporting their number one
frustration when ordering online and through mobile is experiencing a
complicated login process and/or too many steps associated with accessing
their account to place an order. But speed certainly doesn't trump security -
only 13% of survey respondents cited delayed order delivery as a factor when
deciding to place future orders from the same QSR or third party delivery app.
In fact, the survey found that consumers expect QSRs to prioritize security
equal to their service-related demands.
Over half of survey respondents - 62% - are concerned that their interactions
with QSRs will lead to some type of fraud, whether it's stolen payment
information, account takeover, hijacked loyalty rewards points, or fake reviews.
restauranttechnologynews.com
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Nashville, TN: Man accused of stealing thousands in items from Louis Vuitton
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man was arrested after a theft investigation that involved over $10,000 worth of
stolen items on separate occasions. On August 21, an arrest affidavit states a
male and female entered the Louis Vuitton store at Green Hills mall and stole
$6,720 worth of merchandise. Employees apparently recognized the man and said he
has committed similar thefts in the past. The affidavit states he's known as
"Breezy Brown." After conducting a photo line-up, a store employee identified
the male thief as Terence Derrell Brown. On September 20, an arrest affidavit
says Brown entered the same store and stole $4,350 worth of items. Brown has
officially been arrested on two counts of theft of merchandise.
wkrn.com
American Fork, UT: 2 men steal $53K in cash, other merchandise from American
Fork business
A businessman is asking for help from the police and the public to find the men
who stole at least $50,000 and other merchandise from his store earlier this
week. At approximately 12:05 a.m. on Monday, Jason Harward shared on Facebook
surveillance video that showed two men who reportedly stole $13,000 in $1 bills
and $40,000 in $100 bills, along with a Sig Sauer P365 and Glock 43 handguns.
According to American Fork Police, the two people kicked in the door and made
entry into the business, and were able to access the cash and other items by
going directly into the safe.
kutv.com
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Exhibition and Awards Reception will be held on October 30, 2019 at Forsgate
Country Club in Monroe Township, NJ.
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Redding, CA: Thieves target Redding RC & Hobby during PG&E power outage, $4k
worth in loss and damages
Lewisburg, PA: Man uses Diaper Genie to steal $1,100 of merchandise from Walmart
Lower Nazareth Township, PA:. Surf and turf thief steals $833 worth of items
from Wegmans
Millburn, NJ: Sephora at The Mall at Short Hills arrest female with $573 of
stolen merchandise
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Shootings & Deaths
Dayton, OH: Family of Armed Robber outraged that Dollar General clerk shot and
killed their brother in self-defense: 'Yes, he's robbing them - oh well!'
 The
siblings of an armed robber who was shot and killed last week while robbing an
Ohio Dollar General say it was "wrong" for the store clerk to defend himself by
pulling a firearm and shooting the robber. Roosevelt Rappley, 23, entered a
Dollar General store in Dayton, Ohio, last Wednesday around 6:20 p.m., where he
pulled a firearm, pointed it at several individuals in the store, and demanded
money from the clerk. A separate worker, who was armed, drew a firearm and shot
Rappley in the chest. Rappley then left the store and collapsed outside, where
he died.
According to Rappley's siblings, who spoke with WHIO, it was "wrong" that the
employee shot their brother in self-defense. "He's got some responsibility, but
not all," Rappley's sister said. "Right and wrong is wrong, that was wrong for
that clerk to shoot my brother in the chest." "Yes, he's robbing them. Oh, well!
Call the police, that's what you're supposed to do. You're not supposed to take
matters into your own hands!" she continued.
The 911 call indicated the employee fired his weapon in self-defense. "I just
had somebody try to attempt and rob me over here at Dollar General on
Gettysburg. Came in with a firearm, threatened to take money out the drawer,
pointed a gun at me and my staff members," the caller told dispatchers. "He
pointed a gun at me, I had a firearm on me, I pulled my firearm and I shot him
in self-defense." While authorities will give all evidence to a prosecutor
for review, charges are not expected against the employee who shot Rappley.
theblaze.com
Robberies, Incidents & Thefts
Tulsa, OK: Elderly woman in serious condition after being hit by car just
outside of Walmart
Tulsa Police Officers responded to an auto-ped collision at Neighborhood Walmart.
Officials say a 17-year-old hit an elderly person walking out of the store. The
victim entered the walkway of the parking lot and was hit by the front passenger
side of the vehicle and knocked to the ground. The car drove over the victim's
leg with front passenger side wheel causing her to fall and hit her head on the
asphalt. According to medical personnel at the hospital, the CAT scan showed
some swelling in the elderly woman's brain. The woman is in serious condition.
fox23.com
Gwinnett, GA: Florida man wrongly accused of shoplifting at Walmart
 But
then he punched a cop. A Florida man spent 18 days in jail over what he calls a
case of mistaken identity. Police shocked him with a Taser and arrested him
after they say he put up a fight as they tried to question him about shoplifting
at a Gwinnett County Walmart. Walmart security video given to shows an alleged
shoplifter leaving the store, officers moving in and the man resisting. The man
held onto a pole and then allegedly punched an officer. The officer then shocked
him with a Taser as a second officer rushed in. Store security would later tell
police they had pointed out the wrong man and that Amahagwu was not the
shoplifter. Amahagwu was charged with felony obstruction and spent 10 days in
jail without bail until prosecutors realized he wasn't the shoplifter. By the
time he walked out of jail, he'd been there for 18 days.
wsbtv.com
Memphis, TN: Marshall's Loss Prevention Agent hit by shoplifter in vehicle
Police have arrested a woman following a shoplifting incident and the assault of
a security guard at a Marshalls on Polo Grounds Boulevard. Iann Davenport, 46,
is facing multiple charges after she was seen putting $700 worth of products in
her purse by the store's security guard Friday morning. Before Davenport was
able to leave the property, the security guard stopped her and retrieved the
stolen products and told the woman to not return to the store. Police say
Davenport then got into her vehicle and backed into two cars before hitting the
security guard. She also hit another vehicle at a nearby business while leaving
the scene. The woman was not severely injured but did receive some bruising from
the assault. The 46-year-old is facing charges of aggravated assault, theft of
property, driving with a suspended/revoked license, reckless driving and
financial responsibility.
wmcactionnews5.com
Orlando, FL: Walt Disney World Thief Steals Peter Pan's Sails & Space Mountain
Seats Worth $20,000
 A
thief has made off with about $20,000 worth of attraction parts stolen from a
Walt Disney World warehouse, including sails from the Peter Pan's Flight
attraction and seats from Space Mountain. Last week, a Disney employee noticed a
set of sails used in the high-flying Peter Pan's Flight was gone in a storage
shed behind Epcot's Test Track ride. He had been doing inventory counts when he
realized something was wrong. Last week, a Disney employee noticed a set of
sails used in the high-flying Peter Pan's Flight was gone in a storage shed
behind Epcot's Test Track ride. He had been doing inventory counts when he
realized something was wrong.
orlandosentinel.com
Des Moines, IA: Former Kum & Go employee charged with stealing over $32,000 of
merchandise during 5-month employment
UK: London: Another weekend of bloodshed on London streets ends in stabbing of
teen boy outside Grocery store
Sentencings
New Orleans: Gunman Gets 15 Yrs for Attempted Robberies at Walmart Supercenter &
Winn Dixie in Orleans Parish & 1 Walmart Neighborhood Market Robbery in
Jefferson Parish
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C-Store - Houston, TX
- Armed Robbery
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C-Store - Myrtle
Beach, SC - Burglary
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Cell Phone - Bryan, TX
- Burglary
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Cell Phone -
Burlington, WI - Burglary
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Coffee Shop - Suffolk
County, NY - Burglary
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Coffee Shop - Whatcom
County, WA - Armed Robbery
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Comic Books -
Bloomfield, MI - Burglary
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Dollar General - Bibb
County, GA - Burglary
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Dollar General -
Republic, MO - Robbery
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Dollar General -
Dover, DE - Armed Robbery
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Dollar General -
Dayton, OH - Armed Robbery
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Hobby - Redding, CA -
Burglary
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Restaurant - South
Fulton, GA - Robbery (McDonald's)
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Staples - Petaluma, CA
- Armed Robbery
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Tobacco - Shelbyville,
TN - Burglary
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7-Eleven - Dauphin
County, PA - Armed Robbery
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7-Eleven -
Chesterfield, VA - Armed Robbery
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7-Eleven - Federal
Way, WA - Armed Robbery
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7-Eleven - El
Paso, TX - Armed Robbery
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