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More than 300 attendees and vendors turned out for the
Coalition of Law
Enforcement and Retail's 10th Annual Training Conference in San Diego,
Calif. from Oct. 28 through Oct. 31.
On day one, attendees heard from a
large host of industry experts on "violent crime" who discussed timely
topics, including Growing Trends in Retail Armed Robberies & Violent Crimes,
National Violent Crime Statistics (Retail), and Lessons from An Active
Shooter with Rite Aid VP of AP Cathy Langley. Award winners were also named.
On day two, the focus was partnering in investigations, with multiple
value-packed breakout sessions led by industry experts and leaders, including
Assemblyman Jim Cooper & DA Anne Marie Schubert who presented on the new
ballot initiative,
KeepCalSafe.org.
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 The
2019 Security 500 Rankings
Which security programs are taking the lead? These 500 enterprises have been
ranked through metrics to determine the forerunners in 20 sectors.
Retail/Restaurants (Company Name & Security 500 Member)
1. Starbucks Corp. - Garrett Petraia, Vice President, Global Security and
Resilience
2. L Brands, Inc. - John Talamo, Senior Vice President, Asset Protection
3. Under Armour, Inc. - Fred Bealefeld, Vice President; Chief Global
Security Officer
4. Abercrombie & Fitch - Shane P. Berry, Group Vice President of Asset
Protection
5. Brinker International, Inc. - Bill Heine, Chief Security Officer
6. Big Y Foods, Inc. - Mark Gaudette, Director of Loss Prevention
7. Yum! Brands, Inc. - Steven Antoine, Chief Security Officer, Global
Assets Protection
8. VF Corp. - Justin Cullinan, Head of Global Security
9. Lululemon Athletica, Inc. - Greg Brumley, Vice President, Asset
Protection and Facilities
10. Big Lots!, Inc - Robert LaCommare CFI, VP, Asset Protection & Safety
11. Pappas Restaurants, Inc. - Joe Wojcik, Senior Investigator
12. Ascena Retail Group, Inc. - Eric Pidgeon, VP, Asset Protection
13. Costco Wholesale Corp. - Larry Montague, Director of Security
14. Art Van Furniture, Inc. - Michael F. Case, Senior Director of Loss
Prevention
15. Kohl's Corp. - Randy Meadows, Senior Vice President of Loss
Prevention
16. The Kroger Co. - Mike Lamb, Vice President of Asset Protection
17. Safeway/Albertsons - Kathleen Smith, Vice President of Asset
Protection
18. Things Remembered - James Baumgart, Senior Manager of Loss Prevention
19. AutoZone, Inc. - Patrick Barker, Corporate Security Manager
20. HAC, Inc. - Craig Nelson, Director, Risk Management and Loss
Prevention
Listed Alphabetically
Bed Bath & Beyond - Jake Wilson, Corporate Director, Loss Prevention
Papa Johns - Paul R. Johnson, Chief of Global Security
Party City - John Voytilla, Senior Vice President, Facilities,
Construction, Procurement, and Loss Prevention
PetSmart - Matt Lincoln, CFI, Vice President, Loss Prevention, Security
and Safety
Qurate Retail Group - Richard Casado, Director, Global Security &
Business Continuity
Sherwin Williams - Michael Hagenbush, CFI, Director of Enterprise Risk
Management and Compliance
Stage Stores - Allan Watters, Senior Vice President; Asset Protection
The TJX Companies, Inc.- David Mendonca, AVP, Director, Asset Protection
and Technology
Tiffany & Co. - David F. McGowan, Vice President, Worldwide Security
Services
securitymagazine.com
Hong Kong protesters hold flash mob rallies in malls after crashing city's
Halloween party
 Hong
Kong protesters planned flash mob demonstrations in shopping malls on Friday
after a night of clashes in a central bar district as prominent
pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong called for 100,000 people to take to the
streets on Saturday.
Black-clad anti-government protesters, wearing now banned face masks, mingled
with fancy-dress Halloween revelers in the narrow, sloping streets of Lan Kwai
Fong on Thursday, the first time the district had been targeted.
theglobeandmail.com
Organized Crime Gangs Hitting Paris
Paris sees violent crime rise by 70% in some areas
& Huge increase in burglaries, Police say they are struggling to cope
Overall violent crime figures rose by 9% across Paris compared to the
previous year.
Mr Goujon blamed the rise in robberies on criminal networks originating from
eastern Europe and the Balkans, calling for 'resolute action' to disrupt
organised criminal networks.
Speaking to Le Figaro, a senior police officer told the newspaper that the
police force was stretched to capacity. 'There are too many missions piling up
and our numbers finite.
Criminal damage to property has seen a 13% rise across the capital, with an
average of 650 incidents reported a day as figures jumped to 180,000 incidents
reported in 2019.
dailymail.co.uk
Special Series:
New York's New Bail Law Coming Jan. 1, 2020
Another New Law Impacting Retail LP & ORC Big Time
New York's New No-Bail Law & Grand Larceny - In Effect Jan. 1st, 2020
Mandatory Appearance Tickets - Mandatory Release - Mandate Ability to Pay
Yet the relative lack of fanfare over the passage of New York's new bail law
belies its historic and transformative potential to end mass incarceration at
the local level. If implemented effectively, a conservative estimate of the
legislation's impact suggests that New York can expect at least a 40 percent
reduction overall in the state's pretrial jail population.
That bests the 30.4 percent reduction achieved by bail reform in New Jersey, and
the anticipated impact of Senate Bill 10 in California- which is currently on
hold pending a challenge by the bail bond industry-if it goes into effect in
2020.
The governor and the legislature entered the 2019 legislative session under
heightened scrutiny from advocates and progressive reformers to truly reform
New York's criminal justice system.
In August 2018, California passed and Governor Jerry Brown signed into law
Senate Bill 10, making it the first state in the country to fully eliminate
money bail. Suddenly, it was no longer radical to propose taking money out of
the pretrial equation entirely. Second, the same organizing and advocacy that
flipped the New York Senate from red to blue had changed the narrative on
criminal justice reform.
49 states, all except New York, have changed their bail laws to allow
judges to consider both risk of failure to appear and public safety in
pretrial decisions.
The final bill that passed eliminated money bail and mandated release for 90
percent of all arrests statewide.
On misdemeanors, judges must either release the person on their own
recognizance or set nonmonetary conditions, including court-ordered pretrial
supervision.
On all nonviolent felonies, if release on recognizance isn't granted, judges may
impose nonmonetary pretrial conditions, including electronic monitoring.
Click here to read highlights of the law
NYPD Counterterror Chief John Miller Slams New York's Bail Reform Plan
 "Before they enacted this law, 89%, 89% of people were being released at
arraignment without having to pay bail anyway," Miller said. "Now that's going
to go to probably 99%, which is going to be a problem because criminals are
going to know at the time they're arrested 'I'm not really risking going to
jail, I'm not really risking anything except going through the system and coming
out at the other end.'"
"You're talking about people who can sell pounds of cocaine and walk out with
no bail. Someone burglarizes your house and walks out with no bail," Monahan
said. "We're going to be facing some major issues come Jan. 1 if this doesn't
get changed."
According to a study by the Data Collaborative for
Justice, had the 2020 bail reforms been in place last year, about 20,000 more
defendants would have been released without bail compared to the number actually
released.
The NYPD and the police union both say the no bail law will make it much more
difficult to deter crime.
New Jersey eliminated cash bail in 2017. There, 26.9% of defendants released
without bail before trial were charged with a new crime, just slightly more than
the 24.2% in 2014.
cbslocal.com
Will Prosecutors Attempt to Neuter New York's Bail Reforms?
DAs trained how to keep people in jail despite new bail law
Click here to read our entire special series on
the new law
Sustainability Becoming Part of Retail America's Core Values
Publix Takes Lead on Seafood Sustainability
 Signs
touting "responsibly sourced" and "sustainably sourced" began showing up
in Publix Super Markets seafood departments last month. And soon, Publix
store-brand seafood packaging will sport a new look for the first time in 15
years. The operator of nearly 1,300 stores wants seafood shoppers to know that
its sourcing claims are backed by rigorous quality assurance standards created
by third-party organizations so shoppers feel good when buying seafood at Publix,
whether fresh or frozen, wild-caught or farm-raised.
Shoppers have trusted Publix for decades, but with the company being more vocal
about sustainability attributes of its seafood in marketing, store signing and
product packaging, a "trust but verify" approach is being taken.
Seafood suppliers to Publix that comply with various requirements of
standards-setting organizations will now be subject to new reporting
requirements and documentation.
Publix's latest sustainability efforts are another way to earn trust, and
Pizzuti and Mowitt recognized that nothing happens at retail if suppliers
aren't on board with the program.
The goal, broadly, was to share the retailer's commitment to sustainability,
provide an update on key sourcing and regulatory challenges, and then get into
nitty-gritty details about use of a reporting portal, timelines around the
packaging conversion, and key process changes to simplify store-level execution
for employees tasked with making sure that sustainably and responsibly sourced
products are properly signed.
progressivegrocer.com
Physical security governance guidelines
At the core of the Physical Security Governance conversation is the ability or
inability of organizations to collaborate and communicate between silos such as
Operations, Human Resources, Finance, etc. Often, the best practices, policies
and procedures are thwarted by ineffective collaboration and management within
the enterprise. I have found that although the desire is clearly explicit, the
action is far from perfect.
Building physical security governance through proper policies and procedures
cannot function under a dysfunctional corporate environment. Therefore, part of
best practices is to bring together leaders from the C suite and management to
ensure that there is a willingness to build a security program that connects IT,
OT, and physical security as well as every aspect of the corporate tapestry.
This will pave the way to best use of technology and human assets to improve and
strengthen a healthy security environment.
Respectively, the use of the information received by technology and human assets
will corroborate and identify strengths and weaknesses, creating metrics that
build proper policies, procedures and governance.
Finally, this shift for an organization will clearly define and maintain a
culture of awareness and transparency, which will build a sense of trust and
safety that all employees expect.
securitysystemsnews.com
The Toys R Us Story
Private Equity Firms Have Caused Painful Job Losses And More Are Coming
In fact, private equity firms cause significant unemployment. As I
wrote a few weeks ago,
economists at Harvard University and the University of Chicago found that when
private equity take over companies, employment in the private-equity backed
companies decreases by over 4% in the first two years following the buyout. The
research piece "The
Economic Effects of Private Equity" also described that when private equity
firms buy out large publicly traded companies with numerous employees, job
losses are far worse, about a 13% decrease in jobs in the first two years.
All too often when private equity professionals tout their cost cutting
strategies, they do not mention that cost cutting means firing people and
taking away their livelihoods.
Ann Marie Reinhart-Smith, a North Carolina resident who is a former employee of
Toys "R" Us. "Buying up a company with borrowed money is not supporting jobs or
our economy. I saw first-hand the cuts private equity made to
Toys "R" Us after the 2005 buyout. They took away our full-time positions,
hours and benefits and made us take on more work."
The Stop Wall Street Looting Act, a bill co-sponsored by
House and
Senate Democrats, because it "is designed to prevent those practices by
private equity firms and which will benefit workers in PE-owned firms."
This year 14 private equity backed rated companies defaulted. The highest
number are in the retail sector.
forbes.com
Penney's Coming Out Party - Right Before the Holidays
Penney's Opens 'Store of its Wishes' - 'Lab' in Hurst
It's got a barber shop, yoga studio, seating throughout, Pearl Cup coffee on
both levels and a Dallas Cowboys shop built for social-media moments.
 Soltau
ended her first year leading the company by officially unveiling a department
store experience that she said came straight from Penney customer research.
The two-level classic mall anchor built in 1971 has been transformed into a
clean, open, uncluttered department store with experiences that retail
experts say are needed to get people back into the store.
Shopalongs, individual and focus group interviews and data were used to come up
with a store that's easier to shop, Soltau said. With 13% less inventory,
that space has been given back to the shopper in the form of 11 lounges to
"hang out and chill so they can continue shopping."
The North East Mall store isn't a prototype or flagship store, she said.
"It is the fullest articulation of our brand strategy and we're going to use
as a lab."
"There's not one simple thing to do or one shiny experience," she said. "But
we're doing things as fast as we can. Speed is what we're after."
dallasnews.com
WSJ: J.C. Penney Plots a Comeback: Less Clutter, More Yoga Classes
CEO tests new services while looking to make Penney stores easier to shop
 A
glimpse at a future for J.C. Penney Co. JCP +1.00% can be found in Hurst, Texas,
where a remodeled store has a fitness studio, a videogame lounge and style
classes.
Chief Executive Jill Soltau, who took the reins just over a year ago, also is
focused on getting back to basics. She is making stores easier to shop by
removing piles of excess goods and getting out of less profitable categories
such as appliances. And in about 10% of its stores, she is grouping products by
lifestyle.
Fitting rooms are equipped with interactive mirrors, a concierge, stylists,
branded hair salon, barber shop.
The struggling retailer plans to test ideas at this store before rolling them
out to other locations. "What we get out of this store will ultimately fuel a
chain refresh," she said.
She doesn't have the luxury of time.
Ms. Soltau said she has no immediate plans for major closings, adding that the
vast majority of stores are profitable. Instead, she wants to fix the mistakes
of past management that pushed Penney off course.
The Hurst store, about 45 minutes from Penney's headquarters in Plano, offers a
blueprint of Ms. Soltau's vision for the company.
wsj.com
1st State to Outlaw Possessing a Skimmer
Oklahoma: Credit Card Skimmer law goes into effect today
On Friday, 324 new laws will go into effect in Oklahoma. One makes possessing
a credit card skimmer - commonly used in credit card fraud - a criminal offense.
Last spring, Representative Strom said HB 2380 is the first of its kind.
Oklahoma became the first state to outlaw the appliance of credit card skimmers
alongside the fraud associated with them. Rep. Strom said there is no purpose
for these things to exist in the wild other than to create modern day bank
robbers.
bartlesvilleradio.com
Chick-fil-A accidentally emailed customers about National Sandwich Day before
realizing it was on a Sunday
FedEx to Hire 100,000
Forever 21 closing all Riley Rose stores
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NCR SmartAssist Uses AI to Detect Self-Checkout Theft
- Reduces Interventions by up to 70%
Artificial intelligence (AI) has a new frontier: the store
checkout.
Video analytics technology, patented by
StopLift Checkout Vision Systems, now
part of NCR, helps determine what occurs during each transaction at the retail
or supermarket checkout to immediately distinguish between legitimate and
fraudulent behavior.
NCR, the global leader in self-checkout technology with more than 250,000
installations worldwide, acquired StopLift in November 2018 and integrated the
AI technology into its NCR SmartAssist solution.
 NCR SmartAssist enables retail chains to detect and deter self-checkout theft
and scan avoidance, prevent false alerts and unnecessary interventions, alert
the attendant in realtime, and improve customer experience at the self-checkout.
Interestingly, SmartAssist is the rare loss prevention solution that has the
added benefit of improving the customer experience. Store data shows up to a 70%
reduction in the number of self-checkout interventions with SmartAssist. With
fewer false-positive alerts, the attendant can focus on true customer service,
acting properly on legitimate alerts and covering a greater number of
self-checkout stations. This means greater productivity gains and associated
labor savings for the retailer.
 "We've found that self-checkout theft and other scan avoidance has been up to
five times higher than at assisted checkout," said Malay Kundu, formerly CEO of
StopLift and now General Manager of Computer Vision Solutions at NCR.
"Retailers always suspected that self-checkouts would be highly prone to
scan-avoidance, and our technology has certainly found this to be the case."
NCR's technology flags scan-avoided merchandise and unscanned merchandise left
in the shopping cart - and sends a real-time alert to the attendant via wrist
device or to the self-checkout screen itself. Now the attendant can take
immediate and appropriate action before the customer leaves the checkout.
The AI technology also addresses ticket switching, e.g. a dishonest customer
covering the bar code label of an expensive item with the bar code label of a
cheaper item. Another ticket switching practice is a customer stacking an
expensive item like steak over a cheap item like ramen noodles and passing them
over the scanner. In some cases, a dishonest customer will even have the cheap
item's barcode taped to their wrist or in their palm as they make it appear that
they are scanning the more expensive item.
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Time to Take Stock of Data Security Online & At Physical POS
Bed Bath & Beyond data breach serves up valuable reminders for retailers,
consumers
 A
data breach impacting Bed Bath & Beyond online customer accounts offers up
lessons and reminders for retailers and consumers, according to cybersecurity
experts, just in time for the busiest retail shopping season of the year.
The retailer announced Tuesday in an SEC
filing that email and password data were accessed by a third-party with
less than 1% of customer accounts compromised. No payment cards were
impacted, according to the retailer.
In the SEC filing, the retailer stated it has sent notifications to certain
customers as required by law, has hired a security forensics team and is
implementing remedial measures.
While the retailer investigates, security experts say it's prime time for all
retailers to take stock of data security online and at the physical POS, as
well as assess measures in place and, most importantly, shore up employee
education and knowledge about potential security issues.
While there is limited public knowledge regarding the breach it may well be the
result of an employee re-using company credentials that were compromised,
according to Javvad Malik, a security awareness advocate at KnowBe4.
"It should serve as a reminder to all companies that employee training is
important, so that they do not put the company at risk through actions outside
of work," he told Retail Customer Experience in an email.
retailcustomerexperience.com
Quantifying Security Results to Justify Costs
The CISO job isn't to protect the entire business from all threats for any
budget. It's to spell out what level of protection executives can expect for a
given budget.
 Most
modern security programs are centered around "maturity" toward compliance to a
security framework, or a subjective "expert" opinion. Neither of these
approaches can justify security spend or deliver a meaningful
protection-from-impact result. To justify security budget, CISOs need to be able
to answer questions, such as:
• Who can and cannot breach a crown jewel?
• Is this level of protection justifiable?
• What cost did we achieve this for, and is that
cost reasonable?
To answer these questions, CISOs need quantifiable data and terms that influence
costs and results because executives are results driven. They care much less
about what security is doing, and much more about what they get in return for
it. They want to know how differences in security spending quantifiably change
the business's exposure to big impacts. For that reason, security professionals
need to change the narrative from "security is a journey, not a destination" to
"security is a chosen destination, with a justified journey to get and remain
there."
darkreading.com
Flying Below Radar & Evading Police
Combating Cybercrime: Key Challenges for 2020s and Beyond
Global Cyber
Alliance's Andy Bates Sees Escalating Attempts to Evade Police
 One
major challenge with combating cybercrime in the 2020s and beyond appears
destined to be attackers launching a greater number of less-obvious attacks.
"We think that one of the trends going forward into the future is that a
larger number of smaller-value crimes go below the radar ... and therefore
avoid detection by law enforcement," says Andy Bates, executive director of the
Global Cyber
Alliance. *Special editorial note: Like the $1
charge on bank statements.
In a video interview at Information Security Media Group's recent
Cybersecurity Summit in London, Bates discusses:
• The evolution of online crime and
nation-state attacks;
• Strategies for addressing top
business challenges;
• Free and tools to help organizations
improve their cybersecurity posture.
Bates serves as the executive director for the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle
East and Africa for the Global Cyber Alliance. He has more than 25 years of
experience. Previously, he served as CTO at Verizon EMEA and served in various
roles at Racal Electronics, Cable & Wireless Worldwide PLC and Level3.
careersinfosecurity.com
McAfee: Malicious Voicemails Target Office365 Users
Scammers Include Fake Audio in Attempt to Steal Credentials
Cybercriminals are targeting users of Microsoft's Office365 subscription
services with phishing campaigns that uses fake voicemail messages in an attempt
to steal victims' credentials and other information, according to researchers at
the security firm McAfee.
In a
report released Thursday, the researchers say they discovered three phishing
kits being used in the campaign, which was first detected in early August. What
stood out was the use of audio in email attachments claiming to be voicemail as
a way to lure users into exposing their information, says Oliver Devane, a
senior security researcher at McAfee.
"This is unusual and this is what caught our attention," Devane tells
Information Security Media Group. "We have not observed phishing emails using
audio in the past. We believe that this is the work of three different groups
using the same tactic. Most likely they are copying each other as they found the
tactic to be useful."
In the campaign that McAfee detected, the victim initially receives a phishing
email saying they missed a voice call and are instructed to log into their
account to get the message, according to the report.
Contained within the phishing email is an attached HTML file. When the user
loads the file, they are redirected to the phishing website, McAfee finds.
govinfosecurity.com
Editor's Note: The Daily's office has
received a number of these phising emails by the way.
The Cybersecurity Awareness Gap Doesn't Look Like You'd Expect
Don't assume your younger employees are the most tuned in to cybersecurity. A
new study finds that many workers under 30
don't fully appreciate the risks and may
see security practices as impediments to productivity.
In "Meeting the Expectations of a New Generation" [registration], which
summarizes NTT research, the firm reports that employees under age 30 have
"profoundly different attitudes towards cybersecurity," emphasizing flexibility
and productivity. Older employees have a stronger handle on cybersecurity
practices-particularly in Norway and Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United
States. (Overall, the most cyber-savvy nation is France, where a government
program raised awareness of cybersecurity issues among students who are now in
the workforce.)
So why are older employees often better at cybersecurity? Simply put, they've
been around the block more often.
associations.com
Senior Job
BlackRock: Information Security Risk Manager Vice President posted in
Wilmington, DE
* Special Note: This finance firm made a purchase recently of around 600 last
mile delivery hubs in urban areas across the U.S. and is now in the top 2 of
owning last mile delivery hubs. We could potentially see a partnership with
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Free Webinar: How to Leverage RFID Source Tagging
for Loss Prevention | Asset Protection
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learn how retailers can use products that are source tagged with RFID to assist
your organization in managing inventory, preventing loss and improving
profitability.
During this free webinar offered by The Loss Prevention Foundation, in
partnership with Nedap; Asset Protection and Loss Prevention professionals will
learn how RFID technology is becoming the differentiator for retailers in the
evolution of retail and customer expectations and how to use these labels when
they begin showing up at your door.
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What are the hurdles to international e-commerce?
Fraud & Payment Processing
A new study finds global e-commerce will top $3 trillion for the first time in
2019 as more than half of online shoppers have purchased goods outside their
country. Yet half of the leading U.S. online retailers don't currently ship
outside North America.
The 2019 survey of retailers by Internet Retailer for global payments
company BlueSnap and fraud prevention firm Kount found fraud and payment
processing were the two primary concerns preventing U.S. retailers from
capitalizing on the opportunity.
Sixty percent of respondents cited "currency and payment processing" as
one of their "primary obstacles" to international e-commerce. The study noted
that retailers are concerned about the complication of accepting payment methods
that are not common in North America. Consumers in Germany, for example,
frequently pay for online orders upon delivery, while Chinese consumers often
pay for web purchases with Alipay and many Brazilians favor Boleto Bancário.
Sixty percent as well pointed to "fraud prevention." A third think that
international expansion is too risky because of fraud.
Other notable barriers landing on the "primary obstacles" to international
e-commerce list include custom duties, 52 percent; local regulation and laws, 50
percent; fulfillment, 43 percent; language, 36 percent; and customer service, 27
percent.
Encouragingly, the path to profitability was less of a worry, 21 percent; and
generating demand was chosen by only 18 percent.
• In 2018, U.S.-based retailers
in Internet Retailer's rankings of North America's Top 1000 retailers by
web sales sold $147.3 billion to consumers in other countries.
• Sixty-seven percent of U.S.
retailers surveyed somewhat or strongly agreed with the statement that selling
online across borders "is a critical source of our ecommerce growth in the
future."
• Fifty-two percent concurred
with the statement that international ecommerce "is suitable for us because we
have many international customers and followers of our brand and products."
Yet another challenge for most retailers was found to be the fact that Amazon
already accounts for 44 percent of those international sales in 2018, largely
because of its first-mover advantage.
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Kount: White Paper: Global eCommerce Expansion Report
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San Diego County, CA: Federal Investigation: Key Fobs Stolen in Mexico, Resold
in US
A federal investigation has found hundreds of stolen car fobs are being smuggled
across the border where smugglers are reselling them across Imperial and San
Diego County in Southern California. The stolen key fobs come from auto plants
like Ford, Dodge, and Mazda located across the border where the smugglers then
sneaked them across the Calexico port of entry. For the past year-and-a-half
federal investigators have been trying to catch Wilberth Jose Gomez and Jennifer
Verdin as they are suspected of selling key fobs online or to selected
retailers. According to federal documents, Gomez admitted to importing the key
fobs and that some he purchased were stolen from auto manufacturing plants in
Mexico. Over the investigation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers
confiscated over 100 Ford fobs, 50 Dodge fobs, and 88 fobs from Mazda, Nissan,
and Toyota. The concern is if that if these key fobs get into the wrong hands,
they can access your car. nbcmiami.com
Westmoreland County, PA: Man using stolen identity from dark web caught at
Greensburg Best Buy
 An
alert employee at the Best Buy in Greensburg helped police catch a wanted man
accused of identity theft, police said Thursday. Vaughn Lawhorn, 46, was
arrested after police said he tried to use a stolen identity on two separate
occasions to buy electronics from the store. Police said Lawhorn admitted to
getting the victim's information off of the dark web. "For less than $100, that
information can come on a Pennsylvania driver's license," Penn Township Police
Chief John Otto said. Police said Lawhorn had that license with the victim's
information and Lawhorn's picture and they said the fake was difficult to spot.
Otto said the victim attempted to use that license as a way to access the
victim's Best Buy credit card. A manager at the store noticed some
inconsistencies in Lawhorn's information and canceled the purchase. "The victim
in this case was very smart with his information. He's not foolish, and he's not
somebody that puts his information out there all the time," Otto said. "It's
very easy for anybody to collect most people's identities, so you have to come
up with a way to protect yours as best as you can." Lawhorn was arraigned
Wednesday evening and denied bail. Police said he is wanted on similar charges
in multiple states, including California and Maryland.
wtae.com
Cole County, Grand jury indicts four men in Best Buy burglary
A Cole County Grand Jury indicted four men for allegedly taking more than
$60,000 worth of merchandise from a Best Buy. It happened in August at the
Jefferson City store. The suspects in the case are Michael Coleman, Jeremy
Phillips, Keeland Johnson, and Micah Lazaro. The new charges include
second-degree burglary, felony stealing, felony resisting arrest and having
burglary tools. The four men are from Houston, Texas. A law enforcement source
previously told ABC 17 News that the men are suspected of having ties with a
gang that has stolen from Best Buys across the Midwest. Court hearings are
scheduled for next month.
abc17news.com
Memphis, TN: Employee accused of stealing more than $11,000 from Dollar General
A woman is accused of stealing more than $10,000 worth of items from the Dollar
General store where she worked. Daizha Morris is charged with felony theft of
property. Between June and October of this year, investigators say she stole
items from the Dollar General on Highway 64. The store's loss prevention manager
filed an embezzlement report that stated Morris would ring up one item and then
take multiple bags of merchandise without paying for them. Morris admitted to
stealing merchandise from Dollar Tree and signed a written statement. The total
loss for the store was $11,247.
fox13memphis.com
Owasso, OK: Police arrest 4 following $1,000 Kohl's theft, seize meth, other
paraphernalia
Scottsdale, AZ: Police seek pair of suspects in armed robbery at Home Depot
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Shootings & Deaths
Ferndale, MI: Suspect Arrested In Dollar Store Murder From 9 Years Ago; Police
never let up
Ferndale Police announced on Halloween that they solved a long-cold case -- some
call it The Dollar Store murder. The owner of the Dollar Store, Karim Khamarko,
64, of Southfield, was found lying on the floor of the business bleeding and
having trouble breathing on Nov. 11, 2010 at about 9:00 p.m. She had been shot
several times, and died later that night at the hospital. Police have never
given up, though the trail seemed stone cold. Earlier this year, evidence was
discovered that lead to the identification and arrest of a suspect, a 48
year-old man from Romulus.
wwjnewsradio.radio.com
Cedar Rapids, IA: Update: C-Store victim dies from injuries in Wednesday's
shooting
We now know the name of a Cedar Rapids man who was shot and killed. Police tell
us 27-year-old Reginald Ward, Jr. was shot on Wednesday. He died earlier today
at an area hospital. Cedar Rapids Police said they responded to a disturbance
call at the Kum & Go at 3132 First Ave. NE, around 7:52 a.m. Authorities said
when they arrived, they determined multiple shots were fired. They said the
incident happened near the gas pumps.
kwwl.com
Memphis, TN: Store clerk who shot and killed teen over $2 beer sentenced to 22
years without parole
 Anwar
Ghazali, 30, was convicted in August of second-degree murder for fatally
shooting 17-year-old Dorian Harris in 2018. The shooting happened around 10 p.m.
on March 29, 2018, at the Top Stop Shop. Surveillance footage shows Harris
walking into the store, going straight to a cooler and taking a beer. He then
left store within seven seconds. Surveillance footage showed Ghazali following
Harris out of the store and looking for him with a 40-caliber handgun before a
pursuit began. Ghazali fired several shots and returned to the store without
calling the police. Two days later, Harris' body was found near an abandoned
home in a yard.
commercialappeal.com
Robberies, Incidents & Thefts
Schaumburg, IL: Man charged with driving through Woodfield Mall pleads not
guilty to Terrorism charges
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Palatine man facing terrorism charges after allegedly driving an SUV through
Woodfield Mall pleaded not guilty Thursday, and was ordered to have a mental
health exam. Javier Garcia, 23, entered a not guilty plea to Cook County Judge
Joseph Cataldo at an arraignment in Rolling Meadows, according to court records.
Garcia was charged last month with two counts of terrorism and a count of
criminal damage to property. On Sept. 20, he allegedly crashed a black SUV into
the mall through an entrance near Sears and Rainforest Cafe, police said. The
SUV proceeded to speed through the mall, crashing into displays. Garcia was
stopped by shoppers before officers arrived and arrested him, police said. He is
due again in court on Dec. 16.
abc7chicago.com
 Massillon, OH: Police investigate smash and grabs at jewelry stores
Henderson, NV: Man arrested after pulling a gun over parking space dispute
outside Target
Memphis, TN: 6 Vice Lords members convicted after pharmacy robberies; a 2-year
span of armed robberies at pharmacies, gas stations
Yokohama, Japan : $1.84M Diamond Stolen from International Jewelry Show; the
50-carat gem went missing on Thursday
Trio charged in theft of $1.6 million worth of hemp plants
Staten Island trend of ATM thefts requires manpower, a lot of 'elbow grease'
Sentencings
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Burlington Store -
Utica, NY - Robbery
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C-Store - Maui, HI -
Armed Robbery
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C-Store - Pittsburg,
KS - Armed Robbery
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C-Store - Omaha, NE -
Armed Robbery
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C-Store - Stockton, CA
- Robbery
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C-Store - Omaha, NE -
Armed Robbery
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C-Store - Statesboro,
GA - Armed Robbery
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CVS - Kern County, CA
- Armed Robbery
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Dollar General -
Massillon, OH - Burglary
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Dollar General -
Burrton, KS - Armed Robbery
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Gas Station - Pattersonville, NY
- Burglary
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Gas Station -
Columbia, MO - Armed Robbery
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Gas Station - Westampton, NJ
- Armed Robbery
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Hardware - Rangely, CO
- Burglary
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Jewelry - Chico, CA - Robbery
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Jewelry - Leominster, MA - Robbery
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Jewelry - Bothell, WA - Robbery
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Jewelry - Massillon,
OH - Burglary
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Liquor - Brownsville,
TX - Robbery/ Assault
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Restaurant - Sac City,
IA - Burglary
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Tobacco - Omaha, NE -
Armed Robbery
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• 16 robberies
• 5 burglaries
• 0 shootings
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• 89 robberies
• 32 burglaries
• 1 shooting
• 2 killed |
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Boston, MA
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The Loss Prevention Specialist will oversee the Burglar/Fire Alarm and overall
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Region Asset Protection Manager
Jacksonville, FL
Responsible for managing asset protection programs designed to minimize shrink,
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incidents for stores within assigned region. This position will develop the
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Region Asset Protection Manager
Charleston, SC
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safety incidents for stores within assigned region. This position will develop
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Brand Protection Specialist
New York, NY
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Being engaged in the business of your retailer is a critical element for every
Loss Prevention executive. For decades, our industry has often been accused of
being silo'ed and separate from the operators and the merchants. This
separateness in many cases ultimately leads to a disconnect, a sense that we
aren't part of the team. Which in actuality, regardless of your performance, it
can lead to your job being eliminated or just you being replaced with someone
new. So the real question is: How do you become engaged in the business and
truly add value to the company's success beyond reducing shrink? And then having
the courage to go make it happen. We all tend to stay in our comfort zones and
remain safe. At least that's what we think. But at the end of the day, it's that
comfort zone that can actually increase your risk. So the next time you're in a
corporate meeting or traveling stores with your operators or merchants, go
beyond with your comments and opinions - take a risk - add some value - help
them run the business - you might be surprised.
Just a Thought,
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