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Adam Ruiz promoted to Senior Manager of Investigations for JCPenney

Adam has been with JCPenney for over three years, starting as a District Asset Protection Manager before his latest promotion to Senior Manager of Investigations. Before that, he spent over four years with HEB in various LP roles, including LP Specialist, LP Manager, and Regional LP Specialist Supervisor/Supply Chain Security Manager. Earlier in his career, he had another stint with JCPenney, spending nearly 8 years as Loss Prevention Lead Expert/Manager. Congratulations, Adam!

Patrick Smith, CFI promoted to Senior Loss Prevention Advisor for Wawa, Inc.
Patrick has been with Wawa for more than two years, starting with the company as a Loss Prevention Investigator before being promoted to Senior Loss Prevention Advisor. Before that, he spent more than three years with Helzberg Diamonds as a Regional Loss Prevention Manager. Earlier in his career, he held various LP/AP positions with J.Crew, the Sports Authority, Lord & Taylor, Sears, and Nordstrom. Congratulations, Patrick!

Wendy C. Grover, MBA promoted to Asset Protection Operations Manager - Global Supply Chain & Logistics for Target
Wendy has been with Target for more than 13 years, starting with the company as an Executive Team Leader. Before her latest promotion to Asset Protection Operations Manager - Global Supply Chain & Logistics, she spent nearly three years as an Operations Manager. She earned her Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix - Charlotte, NC campus. Congratulations, Wendy!


 


Domino's LP Implements Active Shooter Program Across North America

Kevin Kent from the Domino’s Pizza Safety, Security and Loss Prevention, led by Van Carney, had the opportunity to speak to the entire team at ALICE Training Institute about the implementation of their active shooter program within the Domino’s organization.

Kevin has spearheaded the implementation of the ALICE program at Domino’s with a uniquely developed training model that increased training engagement among Team Members all across North America.

Domino’s is committed to offering best-in-class training to its Team Members and ensuring they are all well-equipped with the knowledge of proper response strategies for violent incidents.

(pictured left to right) Jean-Paul Guilbault, CEO of ALICE Training Institute, and Kevin Kent, Team Leader - Safety, Security & Loss Prevention, Domino's

Thank you to Van Carney, Director, Loss Prevention, Safety & Security, Domino's, for this submission.
 

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In Today's OpEd - FaceFirst CEO, Peter Trepp Responds
to Clearview AI Controversy


About a week ago, the New York Times published an article about a largely unknown facial recognition company called Clearview AI entitled, “The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It”. Articles about facial recognition, good or bad, usually attract the attention of readers but this one will get heightened attention and here’s why:

Clearview is one of many companies that have scraped social media websites to build a large database of faces that it uses to search with a probe image. For law enforcement, for example, this means that an image of a suspect (the probe image) can be compared to Clearview’s database of 3 billion (claimed) images in order to find a possible match and then link it back to the source of the database image (e.g. from Twitter or Facebook). How did they get 3 billion images from social media? Hint: It wasn’t by asking for permission from either the platforms or their users.

Read the full op-ed

'The New Rules of Consumer Privacy'
by FaceFirst CEO Peter Trepp


In The New Rules of Consumer Privacy: Building Loyalty with Connected Consumers in the Age of Face Recognition and AI, FaceFirst CEO and author Peter Trepp has devised a set of rules that will help companies uphold consumers' privacy without sacrificing their security and convenience. By following these rules, brands can create a win-win scenario that will maximize revenue, reduce crime, provide consumers with the best experience possible and ensure that consumers' privacy is reasonably protected. Learn more about the book in today's Vendor Spotlight below. Or order it here!

Clearview AI's Scraping Images at the Top of the News
'Facial recognition datasets & controversies drive biometrics news last week'


Clearview AI Worsening Public Anxiety About Biometrics & Data Privacy

Facial recognition and controversy around the technology were the theme common to most of the past week’s top stories on Biometric Update. After a few weeks of relative calm for facial biometrics, the biggest stories about court cases, regulation, and market growth were all focused on the same modality; and then there was Clearview AI.

Mastercard’s certification of fingerprint payment card technology remains our top story for the second week in a row, emphasizing the importance of payment card certification to the biometrics industry.

Lawsuits related to facial recognition and the Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) of Illinois generated a pair of the top stories of the week on Biometric Update, but each with a twist on the all-to-common stories of arguments about standing and breaches of informed consent rules. Clearview AI has managed to somehow further worsen public anxiety about biometrics and data privacy, and along with IBM has been slapped with a BIPA suit over image acquisition practices. Both companies scraped images from social media to train facial recognition, but IBM did so to address the demographic disparities found in most facial biometric algorithms, while Clearview seems not to have had such a laudable intention.

The reaction of New Jersey’s Attorney General to the evolving Clearview scandal was also among the two widely-read stories of the week, as they barred law enforcement agencies in the state from working with the company. biometricupdate.com

The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
A little-known start-up helps law enforcement match photos of unknown people to their online images — and “might lead to a dystopian future or something,” a backer says.

Clearview AI, devised a groundbreaking facial recognition app. You take a picture of a person, upload it and get to see public photos of that person, along with links to where those photos appeared. The system — whose backbone is a database of more than three billion images that Clearview claims to have scraped from Facebook, YouTube, Venmo and millions of other websites — goes far beyond anything ever constructed by the United States government or Silicon Valley giants.

Federal and state law enforcement officers said that while they had only limited knowledge of how Clearview works and who is behind it, they had used its app to help solve shoplifting, identity theft, credit card fraud, murder and child sexual exploitation cases.

Without public scrutiny, more than 600 law enforcement agencies have started using Clearview in the past year, according to the company, which declined to provide a list. The computer code underlying its app, analyzed by The New York Times, includes programming language to pair it with augmented-reality glasses; users would potentially be able to identify every person they saw. The tool could identify activists at a protest or an attractive stranger on the subway, revealing not just their names but where they lived, what they did and whom they knew.

And it’s not just law enforcement: Clearview has also licensed the app to at least a handful of companies for security purposes. nytimes.com

New Jersey Bars Police From Using Clearview Facial Recognition App
Reporting about the powerful tool with a database of three billion photos “troubled” the state’s attorney general, who asked for an inquiry into its use. Gurbir S. Grewal, New Jersey’s attorney general, told state prosecutors in all 21 counties on Friday that police officers should stop using the Clearview AI app.

New Jersey police officers are now barred from using a facial recognition app made by a start-up that has licensed its groundbreaking technology to hundreds of law enforcement agencies around the country.

The New York Times reported last week that Clearview had amassed a database of more than three billion photos across the web — including sites like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Venmo. The vast database powers an app that can match people to their online photos and link back to the sites the images came from. “Until this week, I had not heard of Clearview AI,” Mr. Grewal said in an interview. “I was troubled.

In a promotional video posted to its website this week, Clearview included images of Mr. Grewal because the company said its app had played a role last year in Operation Open Door, a New Jersey police sting that led to the arrest of 19 people accused of being child predators.

“I was surprised they used my image and the office to promote the product online,” said Mr. Grewal, who confirmed that Clearview’s app had been used to identify one of the people in the sting. “I was troubled they were sharing information about ongoing criminal prosecutions.”

Mr. Grewal’s office sent Clearview a cease-and-desist letter that asked the company to stop using the office and its investigations to promote its products. nytimes.com

EU drops idea of facial recognition ban in public areas: paper

Moscow Launches World's Largest Live Facial Biometrics Surveillance Network

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Coronavirus Update


New York Health Officials: 'Don't Be Overly Concerned'
Public health officials note that the ordinary flu has proved to be far more dangerous so far. Across the country, the C.D.C. says 68 children have died of the flu this year, and the agency estimates 10,000 adults have died. The coronavirus has not yet caused a single death in the United States, officials said.

Of course, that could change if the coronavirus begins spreading here. nytimes.com

Beijing Sees ‘Major Test’ as Doors to China Close & Coronavirus Deaths Surpass SARS

Growing By 2,000 Cases a Day - 425 Deaths to Date

The number of dead is likely to grow as the tally of confirmed infections surges by more than 2,000 every day. “There’s no sign that it’s getting better,” said a health expert.

The growing global move to effectively cut off China’s 1.4 billion people came as government officials reported the new coronavirus strain had killed more in mainland China, 425 as of Tuesday morning, than the SARS outbreak in 2002 and 2003, confirming it as one of the deadliest epidemics in recent Chinese history.

Many leading infectious disease experts say the outbreak is likely to become a pandemic, defined as an ongoing epidemic on two or more continents, and that stringent anti-contagion restrictions may have come too late.

With the C.D.C. already running through its allocations for emergency response funds, the Department of Health and Human Services informed Congress that it may transfer up to $136 million to help combat the spread of coronavirus.

Some deaths still go unreported, and many residents in Wuhan say they believe the true number of deaths across China may be higher than the official tally. nytimes.com
 



Bankrupt Bumble Bee sold for $928M - After Pleading Guilty to Massive Price Fixing Fraud

Fines & Penalties Drove them to Bankruptcy & Then the Sale

The DOJ wanted StarKist to pay $100m, which StarKist claimed could "bankrupt" it or limit the company's ability to pay the $518m in claims from the distributors, retailers and other customers that sued it claiming damage from the price-fixing.

StarKist's plea signals the beginning of the end of criminal proceedings that have dogged the "big three" US canners since allegations first emerged in 2015 that the firms conspired to fix prices at an artificially high level.

Bumble Bee pleaded guilty to criminal price-fixing charges last year and agreed to pay a $25m fine to the Department of Justice (DOJ). Bumble Bee could have faced a $136m penalty if its ability to pay wasn't taken into account, DOJ officials wrote in a sentencing memorandum. Bumble Bee's fine could rise to a maximum of $81m in the event of a sale of the company. undercurrentnews.com  fooddive.com

Global Enterprises and Merchants Unprepared as Fraudsters Focus on Rewards Programs
Forter, the leader in e-commerce fraud prevention, today announced availability of the Forter Loyalty Program Protection solution to protect high value rewards programs from fraud and abuse, enabling merchants to offer enhanced programs with the best possible customer experience.

Loyalty program fraud rose 89% year on year, predominantly driven by the amount of personally identifiable information (PII) available from increasing numbers of data breaches. With direct and indirect losses from loyalty and reward points fraud estimated at $1 billion every year, enterprises are struggling to limit damage as fraud attacks shift from the point of transaction to different elements of the buyer’s journey, including new account signup, login, and promotion and coupon use. businesswire.com

FAA Moves Toward Certifying Specific Drones for Package Deliveries
Agency’s plan boosts efforts by Amazon and others to accelerate delivery to consumers by air

U.S. aviation regulators plan to craft new safety standards for specific unmanned-aircraft models, the biggest step yet toward eventually authorizing widespread delivery of packages by drones.

The Federal Aviation Administration’s proposal, disclosed on Monday in a Federal Register filing amounts to a major policy and regulatory win for Amazon and other companies wanting small-package delivery fleets. It for the first time formally laid out a policy intended to vet the design and reliability of drones.

Routine drone deliveries to U.S. consumers are still years away, and the FAA didn’t spell out a timeline. The agency needs to complete rules for remote identification of more than 400,000 drones registered for commercial operations. wsj.com

L Brands Pulls Victoria's Secret Models Underwear Photos From Investor Website After NY Times Articles

'L Brands Distancing Itself From Victoria's Secret'

L Brands has since quietly changed the imagery on its investor website from a picture of Victoria’s Secret models in their underwear to a photo of some candles and hand soap from Bath and Body Works. It’s yet another sign that L Brands wants to distance itself from Victoria’s Secret, which is increasingly being seen as a toxic asset.

In the Times article, we get a glimpse at the inner workings of the company. The story centers on Ed Razek, a top executive at L Brands, who was perceived to be Wexner’s proxy. Razek allegedly used this power to get his way. According to the report, models alleged that he tried to kiss them, asked them to sit on his lap, and touched their bodies inappropriately before shows. Others said that when they rebuffed his sexual overtures, they were cut off from Victoria’s Secret and no longer invited to be part of photo shoots and events. (Razek denied any wrongdoing.) fastcompany.com

Sephora To Open 100 Stores - Focus on Outside of Malls
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Dollar General Creating 8,000 New Jobs in 2020

Rite Aid Appoints Andre Persaud As Executive Vice President, Retail


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The New Rules of Consumer Privacy
by FaceFirst CEO Peter Trepp


What does it take for companies to survive in today's fast-changing landscape? The secret: balancing consumers' often competing desire for privacy, security and convenience.

That's no easy task. Technological innovations have now made it possible to keep consumers safer than ever before, while offering brands never-imagined insight into consumer behavior. And yet, data breaches and privacy scandals undermine consumer confidence on a daily basis.

It's time for a new model. In The New Rules of Consumer Privacy: Building Loyalty with Connected Consumers in the Age of Face Recognition and AI, FaceFirst CEO and author Peter Trepp has devised a set of rules that will help companies uphold consumers' privacy without sacrificing their security and convenience. By following these rules, brands can create a win-win scenario that will maximize revenue, reduce crime, provide consumers with the best experience possible and ensure that consumers' privacy is reasonably protected.

Included in The New Rules of Consumer Privacy:

● The Five Privacy Principles every company must follow
● The new rules of responsible data handling, according to leading academics and visionaries
● How technology adoption has forever changed our expectations of privacy
● How to deliver security, privacy and convenience at the same time
● Why transparency matters to brand loyalty
● The global legislative landscape
● The future of Artificial Intelligence

This book is a must-read for entrepreneurs, business leaders and anyone curious about face recognition, artificial intelligence or the future of privacy. Here's how to order your copy.

About Peter Trepp
Peter Trepp is CEO of FaceFirst, a global patented enterprise-grade facial recognition software platform designed to be scalable, fast and accurate while maintaining the highest levels of security and privacy. As an executive leader, investor and entrepreneur, Peter has helped numerous technology companies achieve successful exits, including CSC's purchase of ServiceMesh, BlackLine's sale to Silver Lake Sumeru, and RedHat's acquisition of Inktank. He earned his MBA at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and BS degree in Economics from UC Irvine. Peter is a widely quoted industry expert whose thought leadership has appeared in the Wall Street Journey, New York Times, Bloomberg, Digital Journal, Education Week, Business Insider and elsewhere.


 

 


 


FCC: Wireless Carriers Violated Law by Sharing Location Data

Selling Real-Time Location Data to Security Company

A Federal Communications Commission investigation found that one or more U.S. wireless carriers violated federal law by selling consumer location data to third parties, according to a letter FCC Chairman Ajit Pai sent to congressional lawmakers.

In his letter sent Friday, Pai did not name the companies that violated federal law, and he did not specify which statute may have been broken when the carriers sold real-time location data.

The findings described in the letter came from an investigation the FCC launched after the New York Times in 2018 reported about how the biggest wireless carriers, including AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, were giving real-time location data to third-party companies.

Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too, ny times article. Thousands of jails and prisons across the United States use a company called Securus Technologies to provide and monitor calls to inmates. But the former sheriff of Mississippi County, Mo., used a lesser-known Securus service to track people’s cellphones, including those of other officers, without court orders, according to charges filed against him in state and federal court.

Following these stories, Democratic members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee wrote to Pai to demand more details on FCC investigations into these practices as well as the agency's efforts to enforce the Communications Act (see: Democrats Pose Phone Data Privacy Questions to FCC). databreachtoday.com

Attackers Actively Targeting Flaw in Door-Access Controllers

Nortek's Linear eMerge E3 Series Under Attack

There's been a sharp increase in scans for vulnerable Nortek Linear Emerge E3 systems, SonicWall says.

Attackers are actively trying to exploit a critical, previously disclosed command injection flaw in a door access-controller system from Nortek Security and Control LLC to use the device to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS).

SonicWall, which reported on the threat Saturday, said its researchers have observed attackers scanning the entire IPv4 address range space for the vulnerable systems in recent days. According to the security vendor, its firewalls have been blocking literally tens of thousands of hits daily from some 100 IP addresses around the world that are doing the scanning.

The command injection vulnerability [CVE-2019-7256] exists in products from Nortek's Linear eMerge E3 Series access-controller family running older versions of a particular firmware. The access controllers allow organizations to specify the doors that personnel and others can use to enter and exit designated areas within a building or facility, based on their access rights.

Organizations in multiple industries currently use Nortek's access controllers, including commercial, industrial, banking, medical, and the retail sector.

According to a description of the flaw on CVE Details, the flaw enables complete information disclosure, complete compromise of system integrity, and complete compromise of system availability. darkreading.com


NCCoE Seeks Collaborators for New Data Confidentiality Projects

Cybersecurity Vendor Engagement Opportunity - Making an Industry Impact

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) issued a Federal Register Notice today inviting cybersecurity vendors and other interested collaborators to participate in the latest NCCoE Data Security projects:

Data Confidentiality: Identifying and Protecting Assets and Data Against Data Breaches (DCIP)
Data Confidentiality: Detect, Respond to, and Recover from Data Breaches (DCDRR)

Data breaches can have far-reaching operational, financial, and reputational impacts. These NCCoE projects will provide practical solutions to identify and protect the confidentiality of an enterprise’s data, as well as detect, respond to, and recover from incidents that affect data confidentiality.

Potential collaborators may participate in one or both projects by sending an email to ds-nccoe@nist.gov to request a Letter of Interest for a specific project or both projects. Refer to website for more details: govdelivery.com


Talk about an insider threat
Ex-CIA Engineer Set to Go on Trial for Massive Leak


Joshua Schulte allegedly gave WikiLeaks a trove of documents revealing secret hacking programs

In 2017, WikiLeaks released more than 8,000 pages of secret materials—which the antisecrecy organization called “Vault 7”—detailing the CIA’s cyberespionage arsenal, including the agency’s playbook for hacking smartphones, computer operating systems, messaging applications and internet-connected televisions. It was one of the largest breaches in the agency’s history.

Federal prosecutors say the defendant, Joshua Schulte, stole the documents when he worked in a CIA unit that designed the hacking tools.

Mr. Schulte, 31 years old, faces 11 criminal counts, including illegal gathering and transmission of national defense information—charges that derive from the Espionage Act, a statute that has been applied in other WikiLeaks cases. wsj.com

Top Applications Businesses are Using

Coronavirus Phishing Attack Infects US, UK Inboxes
 

 


 


Regularly Review Your Credit Card Statement and Credit Report

Monitoring your credit card activity is the best way for you to catch potential fraud as early as possible, which can make it easier for you to report and resolve the issue. I recommend reviewing your credit card activity once a week to verify your transactions and checking your credit score once a month to monitor any suspicious changes in your score. Most banks offer a FICO score update on their online banking platform, and you can get free credit score updates from Credit Karma. If you do see any suspicious activity, freezing your credit is the most effective way to protect your personal credit information from cybercriminals.


 


 

 


 



Sold-out Amazon sellers warn shoppers about counterfeit face masks as demand soars amid coronavirus fears
As Americans rush out en masse in search of face masks to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus, sold-out Amazon sellers are warning shoppers against buying counterfeit products.

Though medical experts say face masks aren't very effective in preventing the spread of a disease like coronavirus, that hasn't stopped masks from flying off shelves in the US. However, as inventory wanes, companies like PacingMed — the No. 1 best seller of disposable medical masks on Amazon — and BLBM are urging consumers in disclaimers to avoid buying fake products.

"Dear customer, all of our face masks are sold out. Please do not buy orders from other sellers to avoid getting counterfeit products," PacingMed's product page reads. "We are trying to replenish the stock by next month. Our brand is PacingMed. Sorry for the convenience."

Meanwhile, BLBM replaced its featured product imagery with a similar note, telling shoppers "everything will be all right."

A spokesperson for Amazon directed Business Insider to company policy regarding handling counterfeit sales, which states the company employs tools like machine learning and automated systems to spot and remove fake products. businessinsider.com

Amazon Hits 500,000 Employees in U.S.
Up 43% from the year before and more than triple what it was five years ago, the company said Friday. It gained 150,000 workers last year, more than the size of Apple’s entire workforce.

When it reported its quarterly performance Thursday , Amazon revealed that 150 million people were paying to be members of its Prime service, w hich offers faster shipping and other perks. On Friday, even while the Dow fell 600 points, Amazon shares soared passed $2,000 apiece, doubling in price in about two years.

Worldwide, Amazon had 798,000 employees by the end of last year. Only one American company beats Amazon in the size of its workforce: retail rival Walmart, which employs 1.5 million in the U.S. and more than 2 million worldwide. apnews.com

FedEx, Amazon Warn About Nationwide Text Message Scam
FedEx and Amazon are warning customers about a nationwide scheme involving text messages. It’s disguised as a tracking code for a package that’s going to be delivered. There’s a link, and if users click on it, it takes them to a website where hackers gain access to private information including a credit card number. cbslocal.com

Ecommerce & food delivery platforms subsidize coranavirus-hit merchants



 


 



 



 

Blue Mountain, MS: Four charged with embezzlement from Dirt Cheap Distribution Center
Four people were charged with taking over $7,000 worth of merchandise from the Dirt Cheap Distribution Center last week. Blue Mountain Police Chief Brock White said that on Tuesday, Jan. 28, the Blue Mountain Police received a call from 911 dispatch saying there were several subjects stealing merchandise from the Dirt Cheap Distribution Center and putting it in their personal vehicles. The subjects left the warehouse in a car. Tippah County Sheriff's deputies found the car at the trailer park. The vehicle appeared to be full of merchandise from the warehouse.

White obtained video footage from the Dirt Cheap Loss Prevention officer that appeared to show the subjects taking the merchandise from the dock at the warehouse. At that time, the subjects were placed under arrest pending investigation. Officers received permission from the renter, to search the residence and found what appeared to me more merchandise from the warehouse inside. The total value of the merchandise stolen was $7,311.60. djournal.com

Tulsa, OK: Man accused of stealing Amazon delivery van; items found in storage unit, shed
A man was arrested after he allegedly stole an Amazon delivery van with more than 50 packages inside. On January 30, just before 2:30 p.m., an officer saw a vehicle she knew to be associated with the theft of an Amazon van. Just before the officer stopped the van, the driver drove into the parking lot of a storage facility in Tulsa. The driver, identified by Tulsa police as Jason Kravis, and a female passenger, were detained.

According to the Tulsa Police Department, Kravis had a storage unit at the facility. Police obtained a search warrant for the unit and found merchandise believed to have been in the van when it was stolen. Officials then investigated an abandoned residence in Tulsa and followed fresh tire tracks to a shed on the property. 58 packages with Amazon labels were found inside the shed. Because the products were taken out of the boxes with shipping labels, “it is impossible to link it to any purchaser,” police say. kfor.com

New York, NY: Banana Republic and Athleta targeted by thieves
Two Upper East Side clothing stores were targeted by the same thief early Monday, Jan. 27. Eddie Bynum, 35, entered an Athleta on 3rd Ave. and grabbed $2,228 worth of merchandise—including 18 Ultimate Stash Pocket pants before running out of the store. Authorities said that Bynum was issued a trespass notice for the location on Jan. 8. Bynum’s shoplifting spree took him two doors down, to a Banana Republic at about 12:05 p.m. amny.com

Update: Pensacola, FL: Man charged in Burglary of Pawn Shop; 23 Guns and $40,000 in Jewelry…10 guns remain missing

New Britain Township, PA: Police Woman Steals 45 Cans Of Baby Formula from Giant Food

Tilden Township, PA: Police Investigating $1,700 Theft of Beats Headphones from Walmart

 


 


 



Shootings & Deaths

Update: Wauwatosa, WI: Person shot dead by police officer outside of Mayfair Mall was 17 years old
Family, friends and community gathered at a candlelight vigil Monday night to remember the 17-year-old shot and killed by a Wauwatosa Police officer. It happened outside Mayfair Mall on Sunday night, and Wauwatosa Police say the suspect was armed. Police have not released the name, but family identifies the person shot as 17-year-old Alvin Cole. Wauwatosa Police say mall security told them about a "disturbance" involving a group of about ten people, and a witness said someone in the group had a gun. Police say an officer shot a person they believed was armed following a foot chase outside the mall. The suspect died at the hospital. tmj4.com

Chester, SC: Family of man shot, killed by Chester Police outside Walmart files wrongful death lawsuit
The family of a man shot and killed by police last year marched to the Chester County Courthouse and demanded justice by filing a wrongful death and civil rights lawsuit. “My life will never, ever be the same,” the man’s mother Vickie McCree said. “I got that phone call that my son was gone.” Chester police shot and killed Ariane McCree outside the Walmart on J.A. Cochran Bypass on Nov. 23, 2019. Police said he pulled a gun after they arrested him for shoplifting and he was shot in the hip, arm and chest. Members of the National Action Network and his family question how he could have had a gun if he were in custody and in handcuffs. wsoctv.com
 



Robberies, Incidents & Thefts

Edmond, OK: AT&T Armed Robbery was an inside job
The armed robbery that happened at the AT&T store on January 30th was planned by an employee according to court documents. On January 30th Edmond police were called to the AT&T store on N Santa Fe after two men and a female came into the store; it was reported at the time the female had a gun and they were able to make off with thousands in iPhone 11's. The probable cause that was filed with the court says after police put out a picture of two of the alleged robbers a tipster called in and Nyree Connor who works in that store is friends with them. Connor was called in to speak with police and she admitted to planning this robbery with her friend, her friend's boyfriend and a second male. okcfox.com

Macon, GA: 4 Teens charged with Burglary after breaking into Academy Sports
Authorities say the incident happened on Saturday around midnight. Investigators say a 13-year-old along three 14-year-olds broke through the front glass door, entered the store, and stole the following: Airsoft rifles, BB bullets and CO2 cartridges. Investigators say the teens tried taking rifles too, but couldn’t open the display case. Investigator Dennis Terry says he hates seeing teens get wrapped up in incidents like this. “We talk to them most of the time when they commit these crimes,” Terry said. “When they talk to us, we try to give them a sense of hope to change [their] direction and go in a different path. Most of the time they do.” The teens also face seven counts of obstruction and criminal damage to property. 41nbc.com

Utica, MI: Woman allegedly attacks Macy’s employee, flees with stolen merchandise

Muncie, IN: Knife-wielding shoplifter held in Target robbery

 



Sentencings

Columbus, GA: Brawl with police after laundry detergent theft gets Columbus man 10 years in prison
First Anthony Crews smashed through the glass door of a dollar store to steal three bottles of cheap laundry detergent, then he ran from police, and then he fought two officers trying to subdue him, authorities said. Both officers were left with injuries, and Crews was left facing multiple charges in a case that started with stealing detergent and ended with his being sentenced Monday to serve 10 years in prison and 20 on probation. Besides sentencing him to 20 years with 10 to serve, the Judge banned him from Family Dollar. Crews, 53, had a criminal history that included breaking into a car in 2002, theft in 2012, second-degree burglary and possessing tools for the commission of a crime in 2015, and possessing cocaine in 2016, according to court records. ledger-enquirer.com

North Attleboro, MA: Teen arrested for shoplifting and fleeing in Lyft car spared guilty finding
A teenager was spared a guilty finding Monday after she admitted to stealing over $600 worth of clothes and merchandise from Dick’s Sporting Goods and attempting to make a getaway via a ride-sharing service. Attleboro District Court Judge Maureen McManus continued the case against the 18-year-old of Boston for two years without a finding, with probation, after listening to the pleas of her lawyer. Attleboro defense lawyer Matthew Carter asked the judge to not enter a guilty finding against his client because she was a nursing student and the finding would jeopardize her future education and employment opportunities. Police said they left the store with “booster bags” filled with hundreds of dollars in merchandise, and that the bags were designed to foil store security systems. thesunchronicle.com

Donegal Township, PA: Man who appeared on ‘American Pickers’ charged with $650,000 burglary


 

Academy Sports – Macon, GA – Burglary
Auto Dealer – Valdosta, GA – Burglary
Big Red Trading - Wichita Falls, TX – Burglary
Boost – Cleveland, OH – Armed Robbery
C-Store – Brooklyn, NY – Armed Robbery
C-Store – San Andreas, CA -Burglary
C-Store – New York, NY – Robbery
C-Store – Columbus, OH – Armed Robbery
Clothing – New York, NY – Burglary
Clothing – Columbus, OH – Armed Robbery
Dollar General – Nashville, TN – Armed Robbery
Family Dollar – Nashville, TN – Armed Robbery
Golf Cart – Flora, FL – Burglary
Grocery – Corpus Christi, TX – Armed Robbery
Jewelry - Edison, NJ – Robbery
Jewelry – Katy, TX – Burglary
Laundry – Hyde, PA – Burglary
Liquor – Owensboro, KY – Robbery
Pawn Shop – Pensacola, FL - Burglary
Restaurant – Nashville, TN – Armed Robbery (Dunkin)
Restaurant – Colonie, NY – Armed Robbery (Subway)
Restaurant – Darien, IL – Burglary (Dunkin)
Restaurant – New York, NY – Burglary
Restaurant – Denver, CO – Robbery (Haagen Dazs)
Restaurant – Denver, CO – Robbery (Starbucks)
Restaurant – San Antonio, TX – Armed Robbery (Whataburger)
Restaurant – Little Rock, AR – Armed Robbery (Sonic)
Target – Muncie, IN – Armed Robbery
Tobacco – Joliet, IL – Burglary
Verizon – Lisle, IL – Armed Robbery
Verizon - Rantoul, IL – Armed Robbery
Verizon – Oswego, IL – Robbery
Walmart - Greensburg, PA – Armed Robbery
7-Eleven – Fort Worth, TX – Armed Robbery
 

Daily Totals:
• 22 robberies
• 12 burglaries
• 0 shootings
• 0 killed



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Sean Tireman named District Loss Prevention Manager for Nordstrom Rack
 

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