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Gatekeeper Systems Announced as Associate Level LPF Partner
The Loss Prevention Foundation (LPF) announces its newest Associate Level Partner, Gatekeeper Systems, Inc. The Associate level partnership enables Gatekeeper to provide LPQ and LPC certification course scholarships, as well as LPF memberships, to loss prevention industry professionals.

Headquartered in Foothill Ranch, CA, Gatekeeper Systems offers retailers intelligent cart and anti-theft solutions to minimize merchandise loss and reduce asset and labor expenditures. Twenty years after being founded in 1998, Gatekeeper has protected over 5 million carts in 51 countries for top global retailers through their suite of integrated and easy to use products. yourlpf.org

OpenEye: COVID-19 Operations Update
The health and safety of OpenEye's employees and our communities are our top priorities, but we are also working to continue to support our partners and customers during this unprecedented disruption to normal business operations. Washington State, like many other states right now, is under a "Stay at Home" order. Per the US Department of Homeland Security, security professionals and providers have been classified as “essential critical infrastructure workers.”

In this update we provide answers to questions about OpenEye’s preparedness for continued operations: openeye.net

Coronavirus Update: April 2

US: 234K+ Cases, 5,708 Dead -- Globally: 981K+ Cases, 50K+ Dead

Security Deemed Essential in DHS CISA Guidelines

As COVID-19 began to spread rapidly across the United States weeks ago, The Monitoring Association (TMA) proactively initiated communications with the White House and federal authorities to inform key decision makers as to the critical role played by electronic security, fire, monitoring and life safety services and professionals. The Electronic Security Association (ESA) joined TMA in this request, and on March 28, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a notice explicitly mentioning the security industry.

The newest DHS CISA Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce explicitly mentions the industry in two sections:

● Law Enforcement, Public Safety and Other First Responders (Page 6): Workers - including contracted vendors - who maintain, manufacture or supply equipment and services supporting law enforcement emergency service and response operations (to include electronic security and life safety security personnel).

● Communications and Information Technology (Page 11): Workers providing electronic security, fire, monitoring and life safety services, and to ensure physical security, cleanliness and safety of facilities and personnel, including temporary licensing waivers for security personnel to work in other states of municipalities. sdmmag.com

NRF & RILA Send Joint Letter Urging Governors to Preempt Local Orders

Conflicting Local Orders Creating Mass Confusion for Retailers

Retailers are committed to working with elected leaders and law enforcement to keep our communities safe through the current COVID-19 crisis, but well-intentioned local directives are creating mass confusion and inconsistent guidelines across communities, forcing retailers to shift valuable resources and time away from existing efforts to safeguard employees and customers. rila.org

Unemployment claims spiked to new record, doubling to 6.6 million in one week

New Retail Layoffs & Furloughs

Five Below says majority of store & distribution center employees will be furloughed

Ross to furlough 'majority' of store & distribution center employees

Express furloughing most store associates & "a number" of corporate employees

Chico’s FAS announces its furloughing 'many' associates

Buckle will furlough majority store & corporate office employees, effective April 5

Stein Mart furloughs most store employees & “significant number” of supply chain & corp. staff

The Children's Place furloughs all U.S. & Canada associates & field management employees

Caleres announces layoffs & furloughs of associates across stores, distribution centers & corporate

Casper mattress brand is furloughing retail employees beginning April 6

G-III furloughing 60% of wholesale business employees

Retail Crime & Fatalities See COVID-19 Increase

Robberies & Burglaries Spike March 15th to April 2nd

2019 vs 2020

2019 - 200 Robberies
2020 - 243 (increase of 21.5%)

2019 - 83 Burglaries
2020 - 127 (increase of 53%)

2019 - 7 Deaths during incidents
2020 - 8 (increase of 14%)

(*Does not include all fatalities)

Q1 2020 Crime Reports
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Yesterday's White House Press Conference All About Law Enforcement
President Trump along with the Attorney General, Department of Defense Secretary, Chairman Joint Chiefs, and Nat'l Security Advisor held the press conference and took a hard stance on all crime in the U.S. Especially against the drug cartels who may be using this time to double their efforts. So, likewise the U.S. id doubling ours with increased resources and a commitment to continue this increased effort even after the COVID-19 war is over.

The AG once again talked about the joint effort to fight cybercrime and nation states using the pandemic to increase their efforts.

Impressive group of leaders. And certainly America's best there to show criminals worldwide that the U.S. is not to be taken lightly even in the midst of this crisis.

Police & Retail Security Confronted With Rise in Robberies, Burglaries & Theft
3 malls, 7 jewelry stores, several gun stores, general stores, and an assortment of other boarded up and shuttered businesses have all been burglarized during the past several weeks since they were ordered to close their doors due to the Coronavirus outbreak.

Police across the United States have also reported a sudden surge in robberies, brazen shoplifting and shootings. Cops are struggling to maintain law and order as desperate looters and defiant partiers continue to ignore shelter-in-place orders given by their local governments.

Larger police departments like New York City and Los Angeles have seen hundreds of their officers test positive for the virus while smaller departments have had 40 to 60 percent of their department quarantined adding safety concerns for on-duty officers while providing reduced services to their communities.

Some pharmacies and grocery stores that have been allowed to stay open have been looted, robbed and their staff assaulted. Private security companies say they are being called to patrol empty businesses and to stand guard at businesses that are still open. Some stores have added armed security guards to prevent chaos and robberies. privateofficer.org

San Francisco, CA: Shoplifting, Risky Behavior Reach New Heights During Pandemic, Customers and Employees at SF Walgreens Say
Employees and customers at a San Francisco Walgreens are calling for additional staff, security, and protective equipment during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying shoplifting and dangerous behavior inside the store have reached new heights during the city’s weeks-long stay at home order. A series of videos taken by customers and provided to NBC Bay Area appear to show shoplifters cleaning out store shelves, undeterred by employees and customers yelling at them to stop. One video shows a customer pushing an apparent shoplifter out of the store. “They come and then take all the merchandise, the food – especially the food” said a Walgreens employee who NBC Bay Area is not identifying. “And then they say, ‘We have the virus. We got tested positive. We have the virus.” nbcbayarea.com

Retailers Take Proactive Approach to Prevent Looting During Shutdown
In cities like Chicago, Austin, Tex., and New York, local police departments have increased patrols to help protect retailers during the COVID-19 shutdown. (subscription required) wwd.com

Menards cited by Mich. AG 2nd time for actions during COVID-19 pandemic

Price Gouging & Intentional Marketing to Increase Traffic

For the second time in two weeks, Menards has attracted the attention of Michigan’s top law enforcement officer for activities during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Attorney General Dana Nessel on Tuesday had a letter sent to Wisconsin-based Menards following reports that the company’s stores have been engaging in business practices that violate Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s “Stay Home, Stay Safe” executive order, according to a news release. The initiative requires businesses to temporarily limit or suspend on-site operations to only those necessary to sustain or protect life.

The alleged activities revolve around marketing and sales practices designed to increase customer presence in Menards stores, Nessel’s Chief of Operations Christina Grossi says in the letter.

Grossi says her office has received “multiple complaints about Menards current business operations.”

“Those complaints suggest Menard’s is intentionally marketing and advertising to drive additional business into its stores in violation of the Governor’s Order,” Grossi wrote. “Some of these complaints have been sent by Menards employees who fear for their safety.”

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Washington State OKs Facial Recognition Law Seen as National Model

Microsoft-backed bill sets limits but doesn’t ban the technology

Washington state adopted a Microsoft Corp. -backed law enshrining the most detailed regulations of facial recognition in the U.S., potentially serving as a model for other states as use of the technology grows.

Gov. Jay Inslee signed the law Tuesday allowing government agencies to use facial recognition, with restrictions designed to ensure it isn’t deployed for broad surveillance or tracking innocent people.

The law makes Washington’s policy stricter than many states that don’t have any laws governing the technology, but more permissive than at least seven U.S. municipalities that have blocked government from using it out of concerns about privacy violations and bias.

There are signs the Washington model is catching on in other states. Lawmakers in California, Maryland, South Dakota and Idaho introduced bills this year with text mirroring the Washington state bill, word-for-word in some sections, according to Quorum Analytics Inc., a software company that tracks legislation. Those bills haven’t advanced. wsj.com

Second-Highest Ever: March Gun Sales Spiked as Virus Fears Grew
Americans bought about two million guns in March, according to a New York Times analysis of federal data. It was the second-busiest month ever for gun sales, trailing only January 2013, just after President Barack Obama’s re-election and the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

With some people fearful that the pandemic could lead to civil unrest, gun sales have been skyrocketing. In the past, fear of gun-buying restrictions has been the main driver of spikes in gun sales, far surpassing the effects of mass shootings and terrorist attacks alone.

But after lobbying from the firearm industry, the Trump administration said this week that the stores qualified as essential businesses and should stay open during the lockdown alongside pharmacies, gas stations and grocery stores. nytimes.com

Traffic grinds to a halt for apparel retailers, declines even for mass merchants
Morgan Stanley analysts said in an emailed client note that all 22 store-based retailers they cover have closed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and half of them are now closed "until further notice."

According to traffic analytics firm Placer.ai, traffic in the third week of March fell 20.5% at Target, 6.7% at Walmart and 8.7% at Costco, after traffic had spiked at all three retailers in the earlier weeks.

They expect traffic to remain down by as much as 100% until stores reopen and government recommendations on social distancing loosen, which is likely to go on until "at least May," the analysts said.

"none have indicated US eCommerce sales have accelerated from pre-COVID growth rates, meaning lost store sales are simply lost and not recouped online," the analysts said.

"Critically, the benefit that these brands saw in the early days of the coronavirus are being dampened by increasingly strict regulations," Ethan Chernofsky, Placer.ai vice president of marketing, said in a blog post this week.

The tracker, which measured traffic as recently as March 29, shows that drop-offs at Walmart, Target and Costco have become even deeper since the third week of the month.

Among major retailers, only Lowe's and Dollar General have seen traffic increases, according to Placer.ai. retaildive.com

Editor's Note: Bottom line is that the governments intention for everyone to stay-at-home to stop COVID-19 is finally working. And it has to if we expect to see the impact on the curve we need see as quickly as possible.

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Director Safety/Risk Mgmt. - Goodwill of Southeastern Louisiana - New Orleans
Overseeing a 23-parish service territory in Louisiana - operating more than 36 janitorial and grounds maintenance contracts and 22 retail stores - this position is responsible for identifying, evaluating, and analyzing risks inherent to the operations of the agency. Incumbent will formulate, implement, administer, and evaluate risk management strategies to efficiently and cost-effectively manage those risks. Incumbent must remain informed of the dynamic changes that occur within the agency and make the best risk mitigation method decisions based on the changes. goodwillno.org

McDonald's will screen employees before they start shifts as a 'precautionary' measure

Vermont Tells Walmart STOP Sales of Non-Essential Products

Department of Justice Makes $850 Million Available to Help Public Safety Agencies Address COVID-19 Pandemic

RFID Journal's Mark Roberti: What You Need to Know About Getting Financial Stimulus Money

DOJ, HHS Partner to Distribute Over Half Million Medical Supplies Confiscated from Price Gougers

COVID-19 Happened So Fast Farmers - Plowing Under Fields Meant For Restaurants

Sephora keeping majority, 9,000+ of U.S. store employees on payroll through late May

PwC: Supply chains will broaden, diversify in the wake of coronavirus

On-Demand Webinar from Sensormatic & Loss Prevention Foundation:
New LPC Content Released by the Loss Prevention Foundation: Grocery, Restaurants & C-Stores

Quarterly Results
Kroger March Comp Sales Up 30%
Dollar Tree & Family Dollar March Comp's Up 7.1% & 14.4% Respectively - Hiring 25,000

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So which type of keys are right for your business? It depends on what is important to you. To determine what is important, ask yourself this:

Have any of the following situations happened in your organization?

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Attacks Are Up
Pandemic impact report: Security leaders weigh in

'Retail: Hardest Hit and Perhaps Least Prepared'

A new survey of security and IT leaders sheds light on how organizations across industries are dealing with the COVID-19 crisis, how prepared they were, how vulnerable they are, and what the long-term impact may be.

This survey was conducted March 19-23, 2020 among 150 U.S.-based security & technology leaders. Eighty-seven percent of respondents were senior security executives representing an average company size of 23,825. Top represented industries were: financial services, including banking, insurance, and brokerage (27%); healthcare, including providers and pharmaceuticals (17%); high tech (14%); and retail, wholesale & distribution (8%).

We’re in this for a while

We asked security and IT leaders to estimate how long they expect social and work restrictions, resulting from the pandemic, to remain in place. In general, responses averaged 7.7 weeks, with respondents in the retail industry being more hopeful (6.5 weeks) and healthcare respondents, as one might expect them to be, coming in the longest at 9.1 weeks. Essentially, we’re looking at a range that would see social and work restrictions remaining in place until somewhere between May 7th and Memorial Day (May 25th).

Work from home has exploded - Retail Employee @ Home Usage Up 66.4%

Three months ago, 16.5% of survey respondent’s employees worked from home at least 60% of the time. As of March 23rd, that number had climbed to 77.7%, an increase of 4.7-fold. High tech firms had the highest level of WFH prior to the pandemic’s impact at 31.9%, and continue to have the highest today at 90.2%. Retail/wholesale/distribution organizations have experienced the most drastic change in WFH levels, increasing from 3.7% prior to the pandemic to 66.4% today, a nearly 18-fold increase.

While 81% of respondents expressed confidence that their existing security infrastructure could handle their employees working from home, 61% were more concerned about security risks targeting WFH employees today than they were three months ago.

How prepared were businesses?

Retail: hardest hit and perhaps least prepared

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World Economic Forum Releases Guide
How to protect yourself from cyberattacks when working
from home during COVID-19
As many companies adopt work-from-home policies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, cybersecurity is a growing issue.

Both business leaders and individual employees have critical roles and responsibilities in securing their organization and in ensuring that cyberattacks do not further compound the already disrupted work environment.

How businesses can respond
In this critical time, business leaders have a heightened responsibility to set clear expectations about how their organizations are managing security risk in the new work environments, leveraging new policies and technologies and empowering their employees. It’s important that messages on security come from the very top of an organization, and that good examples are set from the start. Here are three recommendations for business leaders.

Understand the threats to your organization - Provide clear guidance and encourage communication - Provide the right security capabilities.

How individuals can respond
Individual users must be empowered to follow the guidance provided to them by organizations and take preventative measures.

Maintain good password hygiene - Update systems and software - Secure your WiFi access point - Use a virtual private network (VPN) - Be wary of COVID-19 scams - Don’t mix personal and work.

Taking these relatively straightforward steps at both an enterprise and individual level should help address some of the most common security risks facing our home-working environments. We should also recognize that our threat environment is not static, which means it's important to keep a close eye on evolving threats to avoid unnecessary additional costs and disruptions in a time when we can least afford them.

Editor's Note: Paying attention to current events (bad actor activity), threats, updates & patches especially for Microsoft and all of your software is absolutely critical. Update & Run your scans everyday!

I'd go so far as to recommend that you completely separate your personal computer usage to your home device while using your business device (laptop) for all business usage.

And if you do get a red (or blue) screen warning immediately turn off the computer and do not release your finger until you actually hear it shut down completely. But you have to move fast and you can't take time to save anything. So saving as you go has to become habit. This one practice has saved me more times than I can count. Now I'm not a qualified IT executive so please this is just advice from a lay person and your results are on you. But I've had that red and blue screen - the prelude to the FBI warning pop up more than a dozen times. And when you do power up - do not connect to the internet - run your virus scans (having more than one is smart) and the second you do connect to the internet delete everything you can in internet options tab (except maybe your passwords). Good Luck. Just some thoughts -Gus Downing

Calif. AG Takes Tough Stance on CCPA
No Delay on CCPA due to COVID-19
The California Attorney General’s Office is going forward with the enforcement of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) despite the logistical issues caused by COVID-19. An advisor to Attorney General Becerra made a statement confirming that the CCPA will be enforced starting on July 1, 2020, despite a plea from over 60 joint industry groups asking for the enforcement to be delayed.

“Right now, we’re committed to enforcing the law upon finalizing the rules or July 1, whichever comes first,” an advisor to Becerra said. “We’re all mindful of the new reality created by COVID-19 and the heightened value of protecting consumers’ privacy online that comes with it. We encourage businesses to be particularly mindful of data security in this time of emergency.”

While some companies without remote access capability might be hard pressed to meet the CCPA compliance requirements, the California Attorney General’s Office is committed to the original July 1 timeline to enforce the CCPA. jdsupra.com

Have You Been "Zoom-Bombed?"
FBI Warns of Teleconferencing and Online Classroom Hijacking
If you are among the many people turning to video-teleconferencing (VTC) to stay connected during the COVID-19 pandemic, you need to protect yourself from “Zoom-bombing” – the entrance of uninvited individuals into your VTC. The FBI has received multiple reports of conferences being disrupted by offensive images and/or threatening language. jdsupra.com

Zoom: We're freezing all new features to sort out security and privacy
In response to these concerns, Zoom has announced it is immediately freezing feature development for 90 days to improve security and privacy and will conduct a third-party security review.

Yesterday, researchers detailed two new security bugs found in the Zoom app. The Zoom Windows client was leaking network credentials due to the app rendering UNC file paths as a clickable link in group chat windows. zdnet.com

COVID-19 Security Alert: 10 Reminders for Employees Working Remotely

Cannabis Business in the Wake of COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact individuals and businesses throughout the world, cannabis businesses in the United States once again find themselves confronting their own set of unique challenges. On the one hand, many State and local jurisdictions throughout the country have designated cannabis businesses as “essential businesses” that are permitted to continue to operate and serve customers during the crisis. On the other, their continued status as illegal business under Federal law severely impacts their ability to take advantage of stimulus programs developed by the U.S. government to assist businesses impacted by the pandemic.

Operating as an Essential Business
Governors from across the nation, including California, Colorado, Illinois, and Massachusetts, among many others, have all made varying

declarations that cannabis businesses, particularly those that dispense medical cannabis and their suppliers, are essential business that can stay open during pending shelter-in-place orders that are designed to slow the spread of COVID-19. The ability to remain open and serve customers is good news for the nascent industry, which has had more than its share of struggles over the last 12-months as the first wave of investment capital receded leaving a string of highly publicized collapses of some of the biggest names in the space. Indeed, the ability to stay open, when so many businesses were forced to close, resulted in a significant increase in sales as a result of customers hoping to stockpile consumable goods in the wake of the crisis. However, remaining open for business is not without its challenges.

Financial Relief
While the cannabis industry has experienced a significant uptick in sales amid the COVID-19 outbreak, sales figures are likely to decline as the rush to stockpile subsides leaving companies to deal with vastly increased operating costs and an economy that many believe is on the verge of recession. This is a bitter pill to swallow for an industry that has been hampered by inordinately high taxes and regulatory costs while competing with the well-entrenched black market, which is able to sell cannabis at a fraction of the price as the regulated businesses. cannabisbusinessexecutive.com

Reduce the Risk: Cannabis and COVID-19

By Tony Gallo, Managing Partner & Katharine Baxter, Lead Technical Writer for Sapphire Risk Advisory Group

For cannabis businesses remaining open during this time, it is crucial to keep distance between employees and purchasers to reduce the risk of spreading coronavirus. In some places like Seattle, fines are enforced if people do not adhere to social distancing guidance. Some dispensaries are placing tape on the floor inside and the ground outside of the facility to indicate a six-foot difference between purchasers and other dispensaries have added physical plexiglass barriers at contact points to create separation between purchasers and employees.

People are lining up in front of dispensaries eager to stock up on cannabis products, uncertain of when businesses and schools will reopen or if further restrictions are coming. Several dispensaries have even created drive-thrus in their parking lots to prevent customers from physically entering the store. An additional option to preventing purchasers from overcrowding facilities is to allow for call-ahead or online ordering with a specific pick-up time. This can assist cannabis businesses in avoiding long lines and close contact between purchasers or employees. Read more here

Environment, Health and Safety from Home
Resources to Rely on while Social Distancing
One can find a veritable treasure trove of EHS resources online, which are easily navigable and accessible – – even in a ‘new’ work at home situation. But where do you begin? What guidelines are applicable to your business? What sources are the most trustworthy and up-to date?

Navigating Health and Safety Information
An obvious and free place to start is the federal government’s Occupational Health and Safety (OSHA) website, www.osha.gov. Coming from the agency which establishes United States workplace standards, the OSHA website holds virtually all of the information you need to understand and establish a Health and Safety program for your company.

As you explore the requirements, you will quickly learn that one of your most important jobs is to keep appropriate records. The OSHA website provides easy instruction here.

Navigating Environmental Information: cannabisbusinessexecutive.com

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Cannabis Communication in the time of COVID-19: Six Key Takeaways

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Dollar Tree Killed Off Online Ordering When Coronavirus Struck - Now It’s Paying For It

60% of Stores Located in Areas with Shelter-in-Place Orders

Dollar Tree took an unusual stance to the coronavirus pandemic when lockdown orders began rolling out across the country in mid-March: The discount retailer effectively shut down its website and announced that it would no longer take online orders.

While millions of Americans clamored to buy groceries and other household staples online to avoid the risk of contracting COVID-19, one of the nation’s largest retailers directed customers to visit its 15,288 stores across the country where the company promised they would be more likely to find shelves stocked with food, water, cleaning supplies and toilet paper.

In other words, with on-site inventory protected from depletion by online shoppers, it would be first come, first served at every location.

As it turns out, Americans don’t seem to be too interested in rubbing elbows with other shoppers right now. Dollar Tree sales fell a sharp 19.4% in the seven days ending March 29, 2020, leading the company—which owns both the Dollar Tree and Family Dollar chains—to admit their business had “materially moderated.” The drop was partially offset by an 8.8% increase in sales at Family Dollar.

About six out of every ten Dollar Tree stores are located in areas where the government has ordered the population to shelter in place, according to estimates from Chuck Grom, an analyst with Gordon Haskett Research Advisors. Another third are in areas where there have been partial mandates. forbes.com

Amazon to deploy masks and temperature checks for workers by next week
Amazon.com Inc plans to roll out temperature checks and face masks for staff at all its U.S. and European warehouses plus Whole Foods stores by early next week, a huge deployment for workers on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak.

The company, which has reported virus cases among warehouse staff and faced several demonstrations, said it would start testing hundreds of thousands of employees a day for fevers. It told Reuters it would use no-contact forehead thermometers at site entrances and send anyone registering more than 100.4 Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) home.

The company will also use machine-learning software to monitor building cameras and determine whether employees are staying at safe distances during their shifts, or whether they are often huddled too close together. reuters.com

Tailored Brands Reopens E-Commerce Fulfillment Centers

Hy-Vee reserves online shopping times for people at risk

Subscription services helped and hurt by coronavirus outbreak

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#2 (from Dec. 9, 2019)
$10 Million Best Buy Burglary Ring
Tulsa, OK: Burglary Ring Suspects Accused Of Crimes Across The State, Arrested
Police arrested a team of suspected burglars after a break-in at a Best Buy, Sunday in Tulsa. Officers said they're part of a burglary ring that stretches from Texas to the Canadian border. Tulsa police said they're responsible for break-ins across the state, and the country. Authorities said Aaron Davis, Dequincy Dunn and Jevonte Morgan have hit Best Buys in Oklahoma before. In August, Best Buy stores in Tulsa were burglarized. Then, last week the three targeted the Owasso Best Buy. And just a couple days ago, an Oklahoma City Best Buy was broken into.

They're allegedly responsible for about $10 million of stolen merchandise from Best Buys across the nation. Sunday morning, the Tulsa Police Burglary Unit set up a sting at three Best Buy stores in town. They said Aaron Davis was caught on surveillance camera breaking the glass at one of the locations. Davis, along with the other three, went in and stole all the Apple products from the display, about $20,000 worth of merchandise. Tulsa police caught him as he was running from the store. Investigators went to the hotel he was staying at and found Dunn and Morgan in the room with more loot from Best Buy.

Officers said Morgan confessed to the Oklahoma City Best Buy burglary. Davis has previous felony convictions. Dunn has an outstanding warrant for his arrest and will be moved to Texas. The three are waiting for their day in court. News On 6 is still waiting for information about the fourth suspect. newson6.com

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Gig Harbor, WA: Wanted ORC suspects facing charge of violating Washington governor’s ‘stay-at-home’ order
Police in Gig Harbor say a couple accused of breaking into a Target store Tuesday night during an attempted burglary is each facing a charge of Violation of an Order of the Governor in a State of Emergency. Detectives say they identified the suspects from surveillance video at the Target store in Puyallup as 24-year-old Roman Kanonik and 23 year old Kayla Kupcsak. The two are already suspects in 29 open investigations in Washington and Oregon with charges including Organized Retail Theft, Burglary and Theft 3rd degree. Detectives say the cases are currently also under review for Federal charges.

Gig Harbor Police have been looking for the couple since Friday when detectives say Kanonik went into the back room of a Target store, used a crowbar to pry open a vault for electronics and stole $21,000 worth of iPhones. Police say he ran out the emergency exit where a Shark Gray Acura was waiting for him. The vehicle’s front bumper appears to have primer paint on it. Investigators suspect Kupscak was behind the wheel. Detectives say they have probable cause in Pierce County to arrest him for Burglary 2nd Degree, Theft in the 1st Degree and now for violating the governor’s order. Police estimate the couple has stolen more than $150,000 worth of goods over the past four months from Walmart, Target and other stores. The two are wanted by law enforcement in Gig Harbor, Lacey, Everett, Pasco, Kitsap County, King County, Yelm, Covington, Chehalis, Shelton and Battleground, Oregon. q13fox.com

College Station, TX: Third woman charged in November theft of nearly $4,000 of merchandise from Victoria’s Secret
A third woman has been arrested in connection to a November theft at Victoria’s Secret, during which, authorities say, almost $4,000 worth of merchandise was taken in five minutes. Tyana Tayon Webber, 18, was arrested Tuesday. Skylett Deshona Duffie, 20, was arrested in November, and Kaylee Keauna Robertson, 24, was arrested in December. According to College Station police, on Nov. 6 three women entered the Victoria’s Secret store in Post Oak Mall at 7:46 p.m. and worked together to fill a store bag and a trash bag, while one woman carried clothes in her hands. The three left the store by 7:51 p.m. and had taken 34 pairs of pants and leggings, 24 tops and 13 sports bras, police said. A mall security guard followed a trail of clothes to the parking lot, where he saw three women climbing into a car. Webber is charged with theft of $3,952 in clothing, a state jail felony punishable by up to two years in a state jail. theeagle.com

Bakersfield, CA: Police seek assistance identifying two youth suspects wanted for Home Depot robbery /assault

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Shootings & Deaths

Bishop, TX: One person dead in shooting at Dollar General; appears to be domestic violence
Multiple law enforcement agencies are investigating an incident that happened Wednesday afternoon at the Dollar General store in Bishop, Texas. Following the incident, authorities were led on a chase to Highway 77 and county road 70 where they appear to have a man in custody. It appears domestic violence was at the root of today's deadly shooting involving a family out of Alabama vacationing in South Texas. kiiitv.com

Irving, TX: Police Officer fatally shoots man who allegedly shot his way into a 7-Eleven
One man is dead after a police shooting overnight in Irving, according to officials. Police said a man in his 60s allegedly showed up to a closed 7-Eleven around 1:15 a.m. Thursday and shot his way inside the store near East Pioneer Drive. Police claim the man then took several items and left the building. A clerk who was still inside was unharmed in the incident. The man then encountered police on the side of the store, where officers noticed he was armed with a shotgun, officials said. One officer fired his weapon, striking and killing the suspect, according to police. wfaa.com

Update: Portland, OR: Family says Portland pawn shop manager killed after trying to stop thief
A family in Minnesota is left devastated after the manager of a pawn shop in southeast Portland was shot and killed near his store. Police identified the victim as 31-year-old Benjamin Taylor Johnson. The shooting happened Monday afternoon near a busy shopping plaza off Southeast 82nd Avenue. Police said the suspect took off and has yet to be found. The sister said her brother was working at the time when he recognized someone in his store who had stolen from the pawn shop earlier that day. “He immediately thought to go and chase after him and when he started running away, he kicked a bike across at my brother and my brother kept going and he eventually shot him twice, maybe more times,” Emily said. Emily said it came as no surprise that Ben would go after a thief. She said her brother took pride in his job and taking care of his employees and customers. kptv.com

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