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Q&A with Chris Fowler, Director of Emerging Technologies at ADT Commercial, Part Two
What new technologies are poised to change/improve how we protect public spaces and businesses? How soon until these technologies will be widely available / adopted by businesses? Technology innovation in this space is happening quickly, focusing on tools to help de-escalate and prevent violent situations. Part Two: At ADT Commercial, we’re focused on researching and developing three key technologies to support this.
Tech innovations aim to help security leaders proactively prevent violent situations instead of being reactionary to them. Within the next few years, we expect to see these innovations enter public spaces and workplaces to make them safer. security.world.com adt.com Part Three Monday: What tips would you offer employers looking to create a safer workplace today?
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Crusius still faces additional state charges in the attack and
could face the death penalty if convicted in that case. Crusius’s plea agreement stipulated the 90 life
sentences, one for each count on which he was indicted — 45 counts of a hate
crime-related charge and 45 counts of using a firearm during violent crimes. He
also pleaded guilty to other hate crime and firearm charges relating to the 22
people injured. Federal prosecutors
did not seek the death penalty for Crusius, but prosecutors in the ongoing
case in Texas state court still could, if Crusius is convicted in that case. “We are still going to be seeking the death
penalty on the Walmart shooter,” El Paso County District Attorney Bill D.
Hicks
said at a Thursday news conference, saying Crusius would be in county
custody in October or November, after which his trial would be scheduled.
washingtonpost.com
New Progressive Low-Level Retail Theft Intervention
Project As big cities
continue to deal with the consequences of the big 5 Progressive DA's, we're now
going to have five more in smaller cities with a scaled down version of the
no-prosecution program. Articles below: Five Sites Selected to Pilot Intervention Program WASHINGTON, D.C. – 07/06/2023
– The Association of Prosecuting Attorneys (APA), in partnership with Justice
System Partners (JSP), announced today that they have selected five sites to
pilot a low-level retail theft
intervention project. Low level
retail theft-which refers to smaller-scale, lower-value shoplifting incidents,
has risen in recent years, harming retailers who have been impacted by shrinkage
and leading to an increase of arrests. The five prosecutor offices
that have been selected are: East Baton
Rouge District Attorney’s Office, LA; 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office
(Centennial), CO; Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office, CA; Shelby County
District Attorney General’s Office (Memphis), TN; and
Columbus City Attorney’s Office, OH (see below article) Many individuals who engage in
low-level retail theft do so as a result of unmet mental health needs, substance
use and/or co-occurring disorders, or housing or food insecurity. These
quality-of-life issues disproportionately affect low-income households and
persons of color, which can exacerbate racial and ethnic disparities when these
individuals come in contact with the criminal justice system. This project will provide
prosecutors with a set of tools to identify and address the needs of those who
commit low-level retail theft. The goal of this project is to work with
prosecutors’ offices and their law enforcement and community partners to
determine effective responses that diagnose the underlying causes of low-level
theft through working directly with retailers and the communities they serve,
increasing public safety and equity. The full report can be read [HERE] The Columbus City Attorney's Office is
one of five prosecutors' offices nationwide piloting a program aimed at
decreasing shoplifting by helping nonviolent offenders who steal low-value items
out of desperation. Besides here in Columbus, pilot programs are
launching in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Centennial,
Colorado; Santa Monica, California and in Shelby County in Memphis, Tennessee. City Attorney
Zach Klein announced what his office is calling "Buckeye Deflection"
on Thursday, a pilot project by the national Association of Prosecuting
Attorneys in partnership with Justice System Partners. “Buckeye Deflection is working to
improve lives and meet the needs of those struggling in our community while also
freeing up prosecutors to go after violent and higher level criminals who pose a
serious threat to public safety,” Klein said. The City Attorney's Prosecution Division
will identify low-level offenders whose crimes stem from quality-of-life factors
like homelessness, poverty,
mental illness or
substance use. The aim is to connect individuals with community resources
that can help improve their lives and lead them to forego stealing again. Klein said these issues disproportionately
affect low-income people and persons of color, which can exacerbate inequities
in the criminal justice system. Some individuals may still face
prosecution, but will get access to help, according to Klein's office. Columbus businesses are on board with the
program, he said. Klein said Buckeye Deflection will expand on his
office's Buckeye Diversion program, which was created in 2019. According to the
city attorney's office, Buckeye Diversion is a first-of-its-kind program that
assesses participants charged with misdemeanor crimes and creates individual
plans for them to get their lives on track. Admission to either program is on a
case-by-case basis, and people who commit violent crimes or repeatedly commit
crimes will not qualify, according to Klein's office. Since 2019, the Buckeye Diversion
Program has had 248 participants. So far in 2023, the program has had 24
people graduate. Nearly 80% of graduates of Buckeye
Diversion have not committed another crime since, according to the city
attorney's office. “While City prosecutors continue to crack down
on criminals who have no regard for the law or the harm they cause small
businesses, there is a small subset of individuals engaged in low-level retail
theft whose actions stem from unmet needs like homelessness, mental health
disorders or food insecurity,” said Jennifer Grant, a prosecutor who leads
the Columbus Buckeye Deflection Program. “Buckeye Deflection gives us the tools to better
identify these individuals and connect them with the critical resources they
need rather than throwing them into a cycle of incarceration and reoffending,"
she said. "The data we’re seeing shows that this program works and helps the
bottom line of our business partners.”
dispatch.com The Chronicle analyzed police data on reported
robberies through June of each year since 2003 and found that while robberies
are indeed up so far this year compared with 2021 and 2022, they are still lower
than most years prior to the pandemic. In fact, data shows five neighborhoods — the
Mission, Tenderloin, South of Market, Financial District and Bayview — have
accounted for roughly half of the city’s reported robberies in the first half of
each year since 2018.
sfchronicle.com Something needs to be done about
bad actors who wear black ski masks — also known as
balaclavas or Shiestys,
inspired by rapper Pooh Shiesty — to conceal their identities. On Monday
night, a shooter
wearing a ski mask and body armor and wielding
an AR-15-style assault rifle killed five people in Kingsessing. In May,
after someone wearing one stepped onto a SEPTA train
shot and killed a 14 yr. old. Then ran off the train when the doors
opened and nobody will ever catch him. Days later,
SEPTA took the bold move of banning ski masks on all of its trains,
platforms, and buses, citing multiple similar incidents like what happened
to Whipple. Then on June 15,
Councilmember Anthony Phillips introduced legislation that would also
ban them on some public property, which includes schools, parks,
recreation centers, day-care facilities, and city-owned buildings. The bill was
cosponsored by 10 other councilmembers but tabled while lawmakers are on summer
break. “This is an issue that I wanted to take on as
soon as possible,” Phillips told me. “There were residents who were complaining
to me about how they didn’t feel safe because of these ski masks, and a number
of residents came up to me and said, ‘This is something that is terrifying
me, and I just want the city to do something about it.’” They wanted to
talk about gun violence and how ski masks should be
banned. Some stores in certain neighborhoods have
signs prohibiting people from entering their premises with their faces covered.
If you go on the Philadelphia Police Department’s Facebook page, you can’t help
but notice how many of the robbery and other suspects caught on surveillance
video are wearing ski masks.
inquirer.com The CVS pharmacy chain and Councilman Bob Holden
(D-Maspeth) on Wednesday discussed security concerns that the councilman passed
along last week after receiving numerous complaints about shoplifting at
three stores in his district. Holden, in a June 28 letter to CVS President and
CEO Karen Lynch, listed a number of concerns brought to his attention, including
that employees fail “to engage with criminals involved in retail theft and
often neglect to report such incidents to local authorities unless they escalate
into more severe crimes, such as armed robbery.” The councilman said he believes that to be “a
grave mistake,” one that would only incentivize criminals and pose a risk to
both shoppers and CVS personnel. Holden also included a copy of a petition with
more than 90 signatures from concerned residents.
gchron.com A CVS worker charged with
stabbing a serial shoplifter to death during a fight inside a Midtown
Manhattan store was only acting in self-defense, his mother claims.
Scotty Enoe, 46, is accused of fatally knifing the 50-year-old
homeless man after the alleged thief socked him in the face inside the drug
store at Broadway and West 49th Street early Thursday, cops and sources said.
The fatal scuffle broke out after Enoe had tried to stop the
alleged would-be thief from trying to take off with Gatorade and a container of
creamer just before 12:30 a.m., according to police and sources. The homeless man, who was
pronounced dead at Bellevue Hospital, had more than a dozen previous
shoplifting arrests to his name and was known to target drug stores in
Upper Manhattan, according to sources.
nypost.com The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes
Enforcement Network
issued a nationwide alert about mail-based check fraud in February. The
bulletin to financial institutions stated that officials noticed an uptick in
criminals targeting postal workers and mailboxes since the start of the
pandemic. In 2022, financial institutions issued more than 680,000 suspicious
activity reports related to check fraud, the Treasury Department reported.
Robberies of mail carriers are up 78 percent in 2023,
the Associated Press reported in May, citing data obtained through the
Freedom of Information Act. The Postal Service has its own law enforcement
agency, the Postal Inspection Service. It has 500 uniformed officers stationed
at post offices to protect employees and customers, and another 1,300 inspectors
that investigate crimes involving the mail system, according to its annual
report to Congress. In May, the Postal Service announced plans
to replace 12,000 collection boxes with new high-security boxes, which make
theft more difficult. The Postal Service will also replace 49,000
locks with electronic locking devices, so criminals will have less incentive to
target mail carriers on the street and won’t have as much access to mailboxes.
washingtonpost.com
NEW YORK (AP) — Several human rights organizations are
concerned about Open Society Foundations plans to lay off 40% of their global
staff — the nonprofit’s second major cut in three years — as billionaire
investor George Soros hands over leadership to his son. “We are most concerned for social justice movements,
which now have to wait for the impact on their sustainability,” said Kellea
Miller, executive director of the Human Rights Funders Network. “In the field of
philanthropy, decisions at the top can have an outsized ripple effect on those
enacting change.” Open Society Foundations, the umbrella organization for Soros’
charitable work, said its board of directors “approved significant changes to
the Foundations’ operating model.” The layoffs will comply with local
regulations, the foundations said, but they have not said where or when they
will take place. In 2021, the foundations offered buyouts to
dozens of employees and sought to streamline their internal structures while
maintaining roughly the same level of grant funding. The foundations say they
currently employ around 800 staff members and maintain offices in more than 20
countries. It may mean OSF makes fewer, larger grants in
the future because the staffing decline makes it harder to handle multiple
smaller grants. Earlier this month, the foundation announced that
Soros was handing over control of his foundations to
his 37-year-old son, Alex, who was elected head of OSF’s board in
December.
apnews.com 1/5 Americans do.
Use the prosecutor search to discover if you’re represented by one:
George Soros is not sorry, or even having
second thoughts, about funding ultra-leftist prosecutors like Alvin Bragg (New
York City), Kim Foxx (Chicago), Larry Krasner (Philadelphia), and George Gascon
(Los Angeles) for all the devastation they’ve inflicted on American communities.
Instead,
according to the New York Post, Soros “vows he won’t stop backing woke DAs
despite urban crime spikes.” The 91-year-old native Hungarian recently
published an
op-ed in the Wall Street Journal. In it he argued the “soft-on-crime
district attorneys” he’s backed to the tune of millions of dollars are
making the criminal justice system “more effective and just….” Soros said he has
no intentions of pulling his support from them.
nationalpoliceorg.com
75 prosecutors nationwide who
were backed by Soros for their pro-criminal bents, as a recent Law
Enforcement Legal Defense Fund report noted. After investing more than $40
million into this project, Soros-backed DAs (and their ideological allies)
now represent at least one-fifth of Americans. Soros is one of the United States’ top political
and advocacy donors, spending billions on campaigns, think tanks,
start-ups, and nonprofits that promote his agenda. His principal
philanthropic network centers on the
Open Society Foundations (OSF) and
Foundation to Promote Open Society (FPOS), two multi-billion-dollar
left-of-center advocacy grantmaking foundations. Through OSF and FPOS
Soros has funded the vast majority of the most prominent left-progressive
advocacy groups in the United States.1 His contributions have supported these
attorneys who seek to reduce theft-related prosecution. In 2017, ILL. State Attorney Kimberly Foxx
was elected into office after receiving financial support from the
Illinois Justice & Public Safety PAC that received $400,000 from Soros.
Foxx, whose jurisdiction includes Chicago, announced that
her office sought to quit prosecuting
shoplifters unless they possessed a record of over 10 previous felony
convictions or had stolen more than $1,000 worth of goods. Similarly, Dallas
County District Attorney John Creuzot announced in 2019 that his campaign
received national funding through Soros and said that
his office would no longer prosecute individuals for the theft of items valued
under $750. Soros contributed $1.45 million to a super PAC
that supported Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner in the
Democratic primary in May 2017.
influencewatch.org After seven consecutive above-average hurricane
seasons, some meteorologists are now upping their forecasts for the 2023
Atlantic season, expecting increased odds of above-average activity. The updated
outlook is in stark contrast to the preseason forecasts of a more subdued
season. The change in thinking is due to extremely warm
Atlantic water temperatures, which have catapulted into record territory. Simply
stated, the ocean is a powder keg, and it won’t take much for a storm to tap
into that fuel. The hurricane season typically peaks in late
August and September, but it doesn’t officially end until Nov. 30. It’s probable
the next month or two will feature an uptick in activity, and some experts are
already anticipating increased probabilities of a major hurricane hitting the
United States. “The probability of U.S. major hurricane
landfall is estimated to be above the long-period average,” Colorado State joins the
British Met Office and
a group at the University of Pennsylvania in predicting a busy season.
Several other forecasts, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration’s
outlook, are calling for near-average activity, but they were made in May
when ocean waters weren’t as warm as they are now.
washingtonpost.co The Federal Trade Commission last week doubled
down on a lawsuit against Walmart over what it alleges was the retail
juggernaut’s failure to protect consumers against fraudulent money transfer
scams. The federal agency amended its complaint in U.S. District
Court for Northern Illinois June 30, adding more counts against Walmart, after
an
adverse ruling in March. In that decision earlier this year, Judge Manish
Shah partially granted a Walmart motion to dismiss the case, jettisoning one of
two counts in the case. The FTC alleges Walmart assisted and facilitated
violations of a telemarketing sales rule that restricts how telemarketers
can do business. In the amended filing in its ongoing contention
that Walmart was aware its money transfer services were being used to defraud
consumers. The agency alleges the retailer not only failed to take action to
prevent the fraud, but collected fees along the way. Consumers were bilked
through sweepstakes scams, advance-fee loan cons and trick-the-grandparent
schemes, among other frauds, according to the lawsuit. The consumer losses have amounted to tens of
millions of dollars annually in recent years, the agency said in the
lawsuit, citing consumer reports. Money transfer services are available at about
4,700 Walmart locations, the agency said. Meanwhile, the retailer has pocketed
millions of dollars in fees from providing money transfer services, the FTC
contends.
paymentdive.com Retailers are deploying robots to cut costs
and improve efficiency, opening new opportunities for chipmakers as well as a
host of new challenges. Solving the last-mile delivery problem within the
supply chain is an important piece of the efficiency puzzle, regardless of
whether distribution stems from warehouse or a grocery store. ARK Invest estimates that robots could deliver
food for a cost of about 6 cents per mile, a 20X cost-saving compared with
delivery by humans. Although using larger delivery robots costs a little bit
more — about 40 cents per mile — that is still one-sixth the cost of taking a
personal trip to the grocery store. This is reflected in the growth projections for
the autonomous delivery market, which Technavio predicts will grow to $24.8
billion by 2026 at a CAGR of 19.85%. The last mile opportunity is even larger.
Straits Research pegs last-mile delivery market at $123 billion by 2030. Even though many are jumping in, not everyone
is convinced. Two major delivery companies, Amazon and FedEx, have canceled
their ARDR programs. If you're following this or interested in
learning about it's trajectory and challenges this is the article to read.
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Europol's New Strategy - Becoming More Like
the FBI The Agency sets out next steps to enhance
partnerships for cross-border cooperation and joint action The Europol Management Board has now adopted the
Agency’s updated corporate strategy. The document, entitled “Delivering
Security in Partnership”. Six strategic objectives The new strategy now includes six strategic
objectives:
A new strategic objective has been added: bringing relevant partners together
for cross-border cooperation and joint action. On this aspect of the strategy,
Europol's Executive Director Catherine De Bolle stated:
"This additional objective emphasizes Europol’s important remit in this
respect. It reflects the important and crucial role our partners want us to
take up. To make Europe safer, we want to excel as a criminal intelligence
hub and as the operational support centre our partners need today."
According to the new objective, partnerships in a broader sense will be
a priority on Europol’s agenda. In addition to the Member States, Schengen
associated countries and third countries will be essential partners, together
with the Agencies in the area of
Justice and Home Affairs (JHA). Private parties, including companies,
academia, NGOs, and research institutes, will be key collaborators too. Interpol
will continue to be an important bridge towards countries around the world with
which Europol has no cooperation arrangements in place.
europa.eu
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How the FBI hacked HiveThe bureau is trying to take the fight to foreign ransomware gangs, even if it means giving up on bringing some of them behind bars. When the FBI took down a notorious cybercrime gang known as Hive earlier this year, it did so without arresting a single person. It was a coup that reflects a notable change in the way the agency fights cybercrime — focusing on outwitting hackers and disrupting them from afar rather than detaining them. Most cybercriminals operate in countries that are beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement. Hive was once one of the world’s most prolific criminal syndicates, notorious for shutting down the networks of American schools, businesses and health care facilities — and then demanding ransoms to restore access. But FBI field agents in Florida managed to unravel the group using little more than a keyboard, first hacking their way into Hive’s network in July 2022, and then undermining its extortion efforts by helping targeted organizations unlock their systems on their own. The FBI estimates it saved victims across the globe roughly $130 million with the sting — a feat that proves the effectiveness of the approach, said Adam Hickey, the deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s national security division at the time of the Hive takedown. But the approach also has its limits. POLITICO interviews with FBI officials behind the effort and independent cybersecurity experts provide fresh details on how the FBI pulled off the sting and why it could often only weaken — and not quite extinguish — the Hive operation. The effort to infiltrate the gang was long and labor-intensive. And while the FBI’s digital sabotage yielded temporary gains, the criminals — still at large — now can regroup and start over again, knowing full well that U.S. law enforcement is on their heels. “Unless you’re taking down the leadership and literally locking them up, it’s highly unlikely you’ll be able to stop ‘ransomware’ groups from resurfacing in a meaningful way,” said Kurtis Minder, CEO of cybersecurity company GroupSense, who has acted as a ransomware negotiator on behalf of several victims. Hive first came on the FBI’s radar in July 2021. Over the next 18 months, Hive launched upward of 1,500 attacks across the globe and collected roughly $100 million in cryptocurrency from its victims, according to estimates from U.S. law enforcement. The group expanded so fast, in part, by turning ruthlessness into a powerful engine of growth, targeting organizations, such as hospitals and health care providers, that other cybercriminals had declared off limits. They learned, for example, how Hive was not exactly one group but several, closer to a branded franchise like McDonald’s than a tight-knight mafia. The group ran what cybercrime experts call a ransomware-as-a-service model, in which the Hive’s core members rent encryption software to a vast web of other criminals, or “affiliates,” who specialize in penetrating networks and deploying the ransomware payload. Twelve months after that first case hit the Tampa desk, Crenshaw finally had a breakthrough. He found a way to break into the group’s remote administration panel, a digital nerve center where gang members safeguard the keys that allow them to scramble — and then “save” — the data of every hospital, school, and small business that fell within their grasp. Crenshaw and Bryan Smith, a section chief for the FBI’s cyber criminals operations section, did not specify how they pulled that feat off. For the next six months, FBI Tampa provided keys to more than 300 new victims across the globe. Crenshaw’s team became so good at offering technical assistance to victims it eventually gave itself a sly nickname, Crenshaw said: “Hive helpdesk.” But the FBI’s success infiltrating Hive never translated to the group’s wholesale demolition. Hive members likely remain active under a new name, argued Minder, of GroupSense. Sometime in early January of this year, the Tampa field office came to its second major discovery, one that would change the Hive case for good. On the basis of more meticulous investigative work, the FBI learned that Hive had rented the primary servers it used to stage its attacks from a data center in Los Angeles. Just two weeks later, it seized the hardware. Shortly thereafter, it announced the takedown. politico.com
Only 5% of CISOs report to CEOs, survey findsCISOs are still most likely to report to the CIO, but Heidrick & Struggles expects that to change as cyber responsibilities evolve. CISOs predominantly report to CIOs and are less likely to report to CEOs now than previous years, according to a Heidrick & Struggles survey. Just 5% of CISOs reported to the CEO this year, down from 8% in 2022 and 11% in 2021, the executive search company’s global survey of CISOs found. Despite a slight year-over-year decrease, more than one-third of CISOs report directly to the CIO. Heidrick & Struggles found CISOs also report to CTOs, COOs, global CISOs and chief risk officers, part of a reporting structure that underscores a leftward shift for the CISO role from compliance to technology, the research found. Two-thirds of CISOs represented in the survey are two levels down from the CEO, reporting to a role that reports directly to the CEO, the survey found. The firm expects the number of CISOs reporting to CIOs to decrease further as CISOs take on a more broad enterprise risk oversight role with regular presentations to the audit committee and board. “What we are seeing, particularly this year, is that CISOs have significant visibility with the full board and its relevant committees — demonstrating that while CISOs might not have a direct line to the CEO, they are still being heard and increasingly integrated into organizational strategy,” Thompson said. The majority of CISOs, 3 in 5, present to the full board and nearly 4 in 5 present to a special committee, the research found. cybersecuritydive.com &uuid=(email))
Only Three Specific Botnets Accounted for 95% of ExploitationsBotnets responsible for over 95% of malicious web traffic globally: ReportFor the research, Trustwave implemented a network of honeypots located in multiple countries including Russia, Ukraine, Poland, the UK, China, and the US. During the six-month period that ended May 2023, the research Trustwave analyzed 38,000 unique IPs, downloading a little over 1,100 payloads served in exploitation attempts. "Almost 19% of the total recorded web traffic was malicious, and botnets were responsible for over 95% of the malicious web traffic detected," the report said. The primary objective of these botnet attacks was to upload a web shell, a malicious script for unauthorized access into compromised websites or servers, enabling attackers to carry out further actions against Trustwave honeypots posing as potential victims. On further analysis, the research found that Mozi, Kinsing,
and Mirai botnets accounted for almost all (95%) of these exploitation attempts.
While Mozi accounted for 73% of the botnets used, Mirai and Kinsing
contributed to 9% and 13% respectively.
Why companies should consider having a chief trust officerTrust should be an important factor for every business. It’s
time to ask yourself: According to the 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer, in this age of rising domestic polarization in countries that include the United States, China, India, and the United Kingdom, trust is fleeting. Those surveyed observed that their "employer is the only trusted institution" in their individual worlds. How do you measure corporate trust?To better understand such measures, Deloitte has a framework called The Four Factors of Trust that distills the trust dynamic down and provides a starting point for measuring where one stands with an organization. These four factors are:
When an action takes place that erodes trust, things go south in a hurry. Imagine not being able to trust an entity within your supply chain or those who supply you with needed items not trusting you. In a recent MIT Technology Review piece, Elena Kvochko, chief trust officer at SAP, highlighted that "trust is a clear competitive differentiator -- having a recognized awareness that this is an important function and this is an important direction for the company -- it was critical for our success." csoonline.com
Microsoft puts out Outlook fire, says everything's fine with Teams malware flawMicrosoft is having a rough week with troubles including an Outlook.com bug that prevented some email users from searching their messages for several hours on Thursday, and a Teams flaw that allows people to send phishing emails and malware to other Teams users. theregister.com |
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Young man sent to prison for over 30 years for crime spree
Zanesville, OH: Jury finds Gahanna woman guilty of 41 charges related to regional theft ring.A Gahanna woman was recently found guilty of 41 charges following a jury after trial in Muskingum County Common Pleas Court. She's yet to be sentenced, but faces up to 57 years in prison. Juliana F.C. Washington, 29, was indicted in April with engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, a first-degree felony, with a three year firearm specification, assault, a second-degree felony, with a three year firearm specification and violent offender specification and multiple counts of theft, petty theft, possessing criminal tools, receiving stolen property, identity fraud, tampering with evidence, forgery, attempted theft and grant theft of a motor vehicle. Washington was one of four individuals indicted related to a regional theft ring. Earlier this year five women at a yoga studio reported their cars were broken into and purses stolen. Their purses contained identification cards, credit cards and checkbooks. Deputies with the Muskingum County Sheriff's Office were called to a gymnastics gym for an additional report of a vehicle break-in shortly after taking the other reports. Tangipahoa Parish, LA: Serial Walmart burglar stole nearly $7,000 of merchandise from store as part of spree throughout southeast La.
Memphis, TN: Thieves fire shots at Southland Mall store manager; $3000 of merchandise stolen.
Batavia, NY: Shoplifting suspect flees Target on foot with more than $2,000 in merchandise
Peachtree City, PA: Shoplifters hit Walmart in volume — 4 arrested
Elmore County, AL: Woman charged with 26 counts of theft at Millbrook Walmart
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(video) New York, NY: Employee arrested after deadly stabbing inside Midtown CVS.The NYPD says a CVS employee stabbed a man to death inside a Midtown store Thursday. Officers were sent to the CVS on Broadway near West 49th Street just after 12 a.m. for a report of a robbery. When they arrived, they found a 50-year-old man suffered from a stab wound to the torso. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police say the victim had been shoplifting before the stabbing. Forty-six-year-old Scotty Enoe, of Brooklyn, was arrested and charged with murder and criminal possession of a weapon.
Akron, OH: 34-year-old Akron woman fatally shot in Dollar General parking lot.Akron police are searching for the suspect who shot and killed a woman in the parking lot of a Dollar General store Monday afternoon. According to police, the shooting happened around 1:30 p.m. at the store located in the 2000 block of W. Market St. Police said Ernestine Stallings, 34, and a friend had just left the store after buying balloons. When officers arrived at the store, a citizen was giving Stallings first aid. EMS transported Stallings to Cleveland Clinic Akron General Medical Center where she was pronounced deceased.
Columbus, OH: Police Officer shot, suspect dead and two arrested after armed robbery chase on I-70.A Columbus police officer is hospitalized and a suspect is dead and two others are arrested after cruisers chased a trio of accused robbers on the highway Thursday. Around 4 p.m., one Columbus police officer was shot in the leg during a shoot-out that occurred on Interstate 70 near West Mound Street as cruisers pursued three suspects accused of robbing a Whitehall car dealership and later a bank, police said. Medics pronounced one suspect dead at 4:20 p.m Two suspects — both of whom ran southbound from the stolen car when the police pursuit ended — remained at large, according to Columbus Division of Police Sgt. Joe Albert. They were arrested nearly 15 hours later, Friday morning in the North Linden area.
Erie, PA: Update: Echoing earlier case, self-defense hinted at in latest fatal shooting at Erie Quick Stop.On May 16, for the second time in less than three years, video cameras captured a fatal shooting from start to finish at the Quick Stop convenience store at West 18th and Chestnut streets in Erie. The similarities do not end there. The defendant in the May 16 shooting is raising the same defense that the defendant put forth in the previous fatal shooting, which happened in October 2020. The defendant in the May 16 shooting, 26-year-old Jaquan O. Harris, told police that he shot the victim, 22-year-old Jalen Rieger-Williams, in self-defense just as an unarmed Rieger-Williams walked inside the store, according to testimony at Harris' preliminary hearing on Thursday. "Dude was about to kill me," Harris said in an interview with police, according to testimony. In the previous case, the defendant, Kyontia L. Blanks, said he acted in self-defense in fatally shooting 40-year-old Frederick Perry on Oct. 21, 2020, as Blanks stood outside the front of the Quick Stop and an unarmed Perry got out of his newly parked car. Blanks, who shot Perry in the chest and shoulder at point-blank range, said Perry had threatened to kill him weeks earlier in a dispute over a woman. Blanks, 27, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter at a jury trial in Erie County Common Pleas Court in January and was sentenced to nine to 18 years in state prison in February.
Erie County, NY: Buffalo man sentenced for injuring victim in shooting at Cheektowaga dollar store.Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announced 34-year-old Travis J. Green of Buffalo was sentenced this morning before Erie County Court Judge Sheila A. DiTullio to 10 years in prison followed by five years of post-release supervision. On Nov. 14, 2017, at approximately 2:30 p.m., the defendant entered a Dollar General store on Union Road in the Town of Cheektowaga to request an employment application. During the incident, the defendant became irate and exited the store. While in the parking lot, the defendant removed a high-powered rifle from his vehicle and fired numerous rounds from the parking lot into the front of the store. Several customers and employees were inside of the store at the time of the shooting. One customer was injured by gunfire. After the shooting, the defendant ran from the scene, but was apprehended nearby by Cheektowaga Police officers. Investigators found a second high-powered rifle and more than 850 rounds of ammunition during a search of the defendant’s vehicle. The victim, a 53-year-old man, was taken by ambulance to ECMC where he was treated for injuries to his arm and shoulder. Green pleaded guilty to one count of attempted murder in the second degree (class “B” violent felony). The defendant pleaded guilty to the highest count in full satisfaction of the indictment against him on May 25, 2023.
Fresno, CA: Suspect bites employee during robbery at jewelry store inside Fresno mall.A suspect managed to get away with expensive jewelry after biting an employee at a store inside a Fresno mall on Thursday night. The robbery happened around 7 pm at Devons Jewelers inside the Fashion Fair Mall near First Street and Shaw Avenue. Fresno police say a suspect was trying to leave the store with stolen jewelry before being stopped by an employee. During the confrontation, officials say the suspect bit the employee twice before managing to escape the store with the jewelry. The store's employee suffered minor injuries. Officers are still working to find the suspect.
(video) Lebec, CA: New body camera footage reveals the moments following a multi-million dollar jewelry heist.The two drivers lingered in the darkness in the hours after their Brink’s big rig was burglarized at the Flying J Travel Center. They tried to make sense of the brazen, late-night jewelry heist. “If this was me and I was going to do something like this, I’d try to stay in the shadows as much as possible,” theorized driver James Beaty. The other driver, Tandy Motley, had another thought: “You know what worries me the most is they always want to blame the employee first.” It was after 3 a.m. on July 11, and thieves had just made off with more than 20 large bags of jewelry, gems and other items that the Brink’s tractor-trailer had been transporting from the International Gem and Jewelry Show in San Mateo to the L.A. area. The heist occurred during a 27-minute window in which Beaty slumbered in the vehicle’s sleeper berth and Motley ate a meal at the Flying J, a sprawling truck stop just off Interstate 5’s sinuous Grapevine in Lebec, Calif.
Troy, NY: Police dog makes 'remarkable recovery' after being stabbed 12 times by burglary suspect.A police dog is recovering after being stabbed 12 times while biting a burglary suspect in upstate New York, his employer said. Norbi, a Belgian Malinois, was stabbed early Wednesday during a pursuit of a suspected burglar targeting homes in the Emerald Greens neighborhood of Troy, the city’s police department said in a statement. The dog and his handler were trying to take the suspect into custody in a wooded area when the suspect stabbed Norbi a dozen times with a knife, according to police.
(video) Wilmington, NC: Fire Department frees child accidentally locked in gun safe at local store.On Saturday, July 1, the Wilmington Fire Department responded to Sportsman’s Warehouse after a child had been unintentionally locked in a gun safe. According to an announcement from the Wilmington Professional Firefighters Association, the child’s sister had accidentally locked her in the safe. On scene, units with the WFD quickly cut the hinges off of the door. “Mistakes can happen in an instant, especially with children,” states the Wilmington Professional Firefighters Association. According to a representative with the fire department, the trapped child was unharmed in the incident.
Columbus, OH: Columbus City Attorney hopes to reduce shoplifting by helping those who steal out of need.The Columbus City Attorney's Office is one of five prosecutors' offices nationwide piloting a program aimed at decreasing shoplifting by helping nonviolent offenders who steal low-value items out of desperation. City Attorney Zach Klein announced what his office is calling "Buckeye Deflection" on Thursday, a pilot project by the national Association of Prosecuting Attorneys in partnership with Justice System Partners. “Buckeye Deflection is working to improve lives and meet the needs of those struggling in our community while also freeing up prosecutors to go after violent and higher level criminals who pose a serious threat to public safety,” Klein said. The City Attorney's Prosecution Division will identify low-level offenders whose crimes stem from quality-of-life factors like homelessness, poverty, mental illness or substance use. The aim is to connect individuals with community resources that can help improve their lives and lead them to forego stealing again.
Macon, GA: Store employee arrested in connection to Family Dollar armed robbery
Chicago, IL: CPD investigating after 4 armed robberies overnight on Northwest Side
Atlanta, GA: Bulletproof glass helps stop store clerk being shot by would-be robber
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