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Lauren
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Laundering for 7-Eleven
Prior to this assignment, Lauren was an Investigations Supervisor on the
Central Investigations Team. Lauren joined the Asset Protection team at
7-Eleven in July of 2013. Prior to joining the team, Lauren spent 6 years
with Target as an Executive Team Leader of Assets Protection. Lauren has a
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Intellicheck's 'Law ID' Goes Viral, With Coast-to-Coast News Coverage
New Law Enforcement App Helps Crack Down on Fake IDs
Law enforcement officers in New York state are employing new, state-of-the-art
technology aimed at catching underage people who try to purchase alcohol.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the Department of Motor Vehicles has launched a pilot
program with an app that can instantly determine if someone is using a fake ID.
The Democrat says New York is the first state to launch such a program.
The app, developed by Long Island-based
Intellicheck Inc.,
is only available to law enforcement.
The company's Law ID app lets police use smartphones to scan a license or ID and
match it against driving records from all 50 states. Officials say the app will
let police know within seconds whether an ID is authentic.
usnews.com
miamiherald.com
nydailynews.com
Watch: Bryan Lewis, CEO of Intellicheck, Shows How 'Law ID' Works
Intellicheck's "Law ID" app allows law enforcement to authenticate drivers
licenses and check federal and state criminal databases and DMV records.
The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles is the first DMV in the nation
to use the "Law ID" app to spot fake IDs and prevent underage drinking. The app was put to
the test at a July 30 concert at Jones Beach. DMV investigators confiscated 30
IDs, finding that 29 were fake.
The "Law ID" app is only available to sworn law enforcement officers.
Intellicheck also has a commercial version, Age ID, that can be used by
establishments that sell alcohol.
longisland.news12.com
N.Y. Governor Cuomo's Office Issues Press Release on Law ID - Read it Here
A
small plane crashed at a parking lot in Santa Ana on Sunday afternoon, killing
all five people aboard
The Cessna 414 declared an emergency and went down at a mall parking lot near
John Wayne Airport at 12:28 p.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said. The
twin-engine aircraft crashed near the South Coast Plaza shopping mall, said Tony
Bommarito, a spokesman for Orange County Fire Authority. Video of the scene
showed the crushed plane sitting in the parking lot of a Staples office supply
store. While the plane hit a vehicle, the driver was actually shopping inside
Staples at the time.
ktla.com
Portland far-right rally, counter-protest lead to injuries, four arrests
Crowds
and political ideologies clashed Saturday when hundreds of protesters
faced off in downtown Portland. A giant crowd of people from several
opposing political groups, including right-wing Patriot Prayer and
antifa, faced off once again in a protest that started at Tom McCall
Waterfront Park.
Protesters saw a significant police presence that included
bomb-sniffing dogs and weapons screening checkpoints.
The two groups came face-to-face on either side of Southwest Naito
Parkway, where hundreds of police officers from Portland and Oregon
State Police tried to keep them separated. When protesters refused
police orders to get out of the street, officers used less-lethal
crowd control devices including rubber bullets, pepper spray and
flash bangs to disperse people.
Police said protesters were throwing rocks and bottles and several
people were treated for injuries during tense moments. Police
confiscated weapons throughout the day, including a firework mortar,
sticks, baseball bats, pepper spray and shields.
koin.com
cbsnews.com
UK: Marks & Spencer Bomb Scare
Man 'detained under mental health act' after shoppers evacuated
A man who sparked a security alert at a Scunthorpe retail park has been detained
under the Mental Health Act. Roads were shut off and shops evacuated at North
Lincolnshire Retail Park Saturday afternoon after the man triggered an
"unsubstantiated" alert.
Police were called to the Marks & Spencer store on the Doncaster Road park at
12.42pm after staff were alerted to a potential "bomb scare". Staff and
customers were ordered to leave the department store as a precaution and police
took to Twitter to warn the public to avoid the park due to an "ongoing
incident".
A convoy of emergency vehicles, including police cars and an ambulance, swamped
the retail park's car park while the public looked on from behind a police
cordon. Vehicles were stationed near the entrance doors to Marks & Spencer, as
well as in the car park near to KFC and Frankie and Benny's.
grimsbytelegraph.co.uk
Greenville, SC: These 3 stores make up 80%
of all downtown shoplifting
The vast majority of all shoplifting incidents in downtown Greenville come from
three main retailers: CVS on South Main Street, Publix on East McBee Street
and Mast General Store on North Main Street. Combined, the three retailers
have made up 79.3 percent of the shoplifting cases in Greenville's downtown
since 2016.
Police are working to make arrests in a growing number of cases on
the heels of a year where shoplifting downtown was twice as high as the prior
year. There were 87 shoplifting cases in downtown Greenville in 2017 compared to
48 in 2016. The first half of 2017 was highest with 55 between January and July,
according to data obtained from the Greenville Police Department. Through July
this year, there have been 34 shoplifting cases, the data shows.
greenvilleonline.com
Listen: Online Techniques for an Offline World with Tony D'Onofrio of TD
Insights
The
founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics was fond of saying: “Nothing happens until
somebody sells something”. The true power of retail has always been
found in the “how” part of the process, not in the “what” part. The way
in which a customer experiences the transaction can be even more
impactful than the thing they actually purchase. Technology is playing
an ever-increasing role in the way that experience is curated.
On today’s podcast, Sean Heath had a chat with Tony D’Onofrio from TD
Insights. They discussed the ways that technology is advancing the
retail industry, how Amazon has cracked the retail code for both the
online and physical space, and how powerful product knowledge is on both
sides of the transaction.
marketscale.com
Tony D'Onofrio's New Blog Post on Retailing in the Middle East
The Surprising Benchmark for the Future of Retail
Welcome to Dubai or as CBRE calls it, the key stepping stone for international
brands entering the Middle East. Over the next three years, more than 1.5
million square meters of new retail space could be delivered to the Dubai
market, adding roughly 50% to existing inventory.
Being on the Board of Advisors for the upcoming Dubai Smart Stores Expo and
having personally experienced the vibrancy of Middle East on multiple occasions,
it is time to revisit this region and explore its global retail possibilities.
tonydonofrio.com
The Message Being Sent to HR America:
'Give Second Chance a Chance'
Each year in the United States, 700,000 men and women are released from
prison and re-enter society, where many want to find jobs. Yet despite U.S.
employers' growing need for workers, formerly incarcerated applicants face a
huge obstacle in achieving gainful employment: criminal background checks.
At the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) 2018 Annual Conference &
Exposition in Chicago, SHRM President and Chief Executive Officer Johnny C.
Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, made it clear that second-chance employment -
hiring employees with a conviction history - is a SHRM priority and
initiative.
In collaboration with the Charles Koch Foundation, SHRM recently surveyed
managers and HR professionals on their attitudes toward hiring candidates
with criminal pasts. Survey results show increasing awareness and
understanding that a criminal background should not disqualify someone from
employment.
However, as Taylor notes, "Willingness to hire in theory doesn't necessarily
mean willingness to hire in practice."
So what are the obstacles that prevent otherwise open-minded HR
professionals and managers from hiring someone with a criminal past - and
what would convince them to give these applicants a second chance?
shrm.org
Streamlining can save millions for retailers, claims study
Retailers can boost sales by 3.7 percent by enacting strong compliance
initiatives and streamlining complex store communications, according to a
study commissioned by Foko Retail in a partnership with Retail Info
Systems, according to a press release.
"Complex store communications are killing the retail bottom line," said Marc
Gingras, founder and CEO of Foko Retail, in the release. "The issue many
retailers face is poor management of complicated systems, which breeds
inefficiency. The study results also show that the gap between HQ's plans
and how the stores actually deliver them is widening. By contrast, excellent
store execution rewards retailers by helping them achieve financial goals,
reduce costs and win against competitors."
The study stated better communication with managers and store associates is
essential for solving store level compliance problems, and that mobile
devices are underutilized as just 57 percent of retailers make them
available to store managers.
retailcustomerexperience.com
Amazon HQ2 candidates are going to great lengths
to keep their plans secret
In January, Amazon whittled down 238 proposals to a list of 20 sites that are
currently in the running for HQ2. A select few,
including Boston and
Maryland's Montgomery County, have been public about their proposals or the
kind of tax incentives they will be offering.
But the majority haven't, and many city officials are now protesting about being
left in the dark.
"The only time the public may become aware if the city has promised Amazon
incentives is if we win and then we need to get those incentives passed," he
said.
According to The Times, there are two main reasons for this: First, HQ2 bids are
being handled by local private Chambers of Commerce or economic development
groups that aren't required to make their pitches public. Second, keeping the
details secret is a way to keep their incentives hidden from rivals and avoid
the risk of having their ideas poached.
As a result, some of these cities — including Newark, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and
Philadelphia — are facing lawsuits or pressure from local public-advocacy groups
to release information about their bids, on the grounds that any large tax
breaks will impact the public.
It's not just the cities themselves that are remaining mum on the process.
Amazon itself has also remained highly secretive since scoping out the 20 cities
earlier this year. According to the Puget Sound Business Journal, Amazon
officials who visited potential HQ2 sites didn't share their last names or
titles when they arrived.
businessinsider.com
The top back-to-school shopping destinations are...
More than half (50.3%) of parents plan to do their back-to-school shopping at
Walmart, according to an annual report by JLL. The second most popular
destination is Target (47.4%), followed by Amazon (15.8%), Staples (9.9%) and
Office Depot (7.1%). The top 10 destinations are listed here:
chainstoreage.com
How Philly Became a Front in the War on Knockoff
Swag; From fake Yeti mugs to bogus Rolex watches, officials here are seizing a
ton of counterfeit merchandise
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are making a movie about the ex-cop who reportedly
rigged McDonald's Monopoly game to win $24 million
Last week's #1 article --
California Prop 47 Aftermath:
One person arrested 83 times since its passing
Prop
47, which classified "non-serious, nonviolent crimes" as misdemeanors instead of
felonies, has some people believing it could be responsible for an increase in
petty crimes.
One of those people is Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer who says Prop 47
definitely plays a leading role in what he sees everyday. "There's an individual
we have arrested 83 times since Prop 47 has passed, all on petty thefts, 83
times," Dyer told yourcentralvalley.
The Chief has mostly seen a spike in thefts and says it's happening everyday.
"That's their job, that's their career, there embolden to do it because there's
no consequences."
In the last few weeks 15 Lululemon stores statewide have been robbed with
tens-of-thousands of dollars in merchandise stolen. Apple stores across the
state are also getting hit with thousands of dollars in iPhones and iPads swiped
off the counters.
Dyer says sometimes there hands are tied when it comes to keeping the thieves
off the streets, but that voters can take control at the ballot box.
iheart.com
Anti-Counterfeit &
Currency Expo
November 6-8 - Las Vegas, NV
Anti-Counterfeit & Currency Conference is a completely
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With participation from 100+ exhibitors, 2,000+ attendees, and 60+
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Tidel, Glory, SUZOHAPP and Fifth Third Bank, this is a
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In Memoriam
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Workplace Domestic Violence –
Regretfully At One Of Our Own
Vector Security Employee Killed By
Ex-Boyfriend in Parking Lot Incident
at Suburban Philadelphia Office Park
33-year-old Angela Maya Stith, employee of Vector Security, was brutally
murdered by her ex-boyfriend in a parking lot altercation at the 24/7
security-monitoring company's office park in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Friday morning. The incident occurred around 2:15 am while Stith was on break
during an overnight shift.
The suspect was later arrested by a Pennsylvania State Trooper after he was
spotted going west on the Pennsylvania Turnpike near the Allegheny Tunnel, about
210 miles west of the scene.
Editor’s Note: Out of respect for the victim, her family, and
colleagues at Vector Security, we've decided to omit details of this incident.
Vector Security: Official
Statement Regarding Angela Stith
We
are saddened by the recent events surrounding the death of Angela Stith early
this morning. Angela was a relatively new employee starting in January of this
year, and she was liked by her coworkers and peers. Our hearts go out to her
family during this difficult period.
Our local teams have been working with law enforcement to provide all of the
necessary information, including giving access to video footage and employees to
help in the investigation.
Our focus now is on our employees allowing them time to grieve and process what
occurred. In particular, we are assisting the ones that rushed to help Angela
along with the number of employees who watched these tragic events unfold over
live video feed. We are providing on-site counseling to all employees and ask
that the media respect their privacy as they grieve for a coworker and friend.
For any further details related to this case, we ask that you review District
Attorney Kevin Steele’s August 3rd
press conference related to this matter.
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Register today! Don't miss this year's ARLF!
Check out what's in store...
The forum sessions have been catered
towards you and your needs by our Retail Advisory Board. We cover the
topics trending now in retail security to ensure you leave better
prepared and ready to take on challenges in your role.
We'll cover sessions such as:
● Integrated solutions panel with major retailers
● PCI Compliance
● Cybersecurity
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Scalpers Deploys Nedap Retail's RFID Solution Across 150 Stores
Global fashion retailer Scalpers is launching a company-wide RFID system
that is tracking its inventory as the merchandise flows through the
distribution center to its stores and then moves between back rooms and
store fronts.
The company is rolling out a solution from Nedap by first
bringing nine "champion" stores live, then using those stores for
training and rollout of the entire chain across Europe and globally.
While the solution is aimed at bringing inventory accuracy levels to
near 100 percent at all stores in the short term, the company says, it
has long-term plans to use the system for point-of-sale (POS) and
security functions, as well as offering customer-facing features. The
passive UHF RFID system, provided by
Nedap Retail,
consists of the technology company's !D Cloud software and handheld
readers, in addition to customized tunnel readers.
rfidjournal.com
Ransomware Attacks: A Quantum Leap from Quantity to Quality
"More Sophisticated, Targeted and Effective"
Unlike other types of malware which rely on stealth characteristics to
infiltrate systems or quietly siphon off data untraced, ransomware
boldly declares its intent. After the WannaCry outbreak, which leveraged
the leaked NSA EternalBlue exploit, ransomware had become a mainstream
topic of conversation, and a major concern.
Fast forward a year and by all accounts ransomware incidents are on the
decline – by as much as 32% according to some reports. So should
security practitioners check ransomware off their list of things keeping
them up at night? Dig a little deeper and we see that, for enterprises,
the ransomware threat is not going away anytime soon. While
attack volume may have declined, ransomware attacks have evolved to
be more sophisticated, targeted and effective against unsuspecting
users and unprepared organizations.
Unfortunately, when it comes to ransomware, most security solutions have
proven fairly ineffective. Many victims of ransomware are running
fully-updated antivirus engines alongside anti-exploit and/or HIPS
engines at the time they get hit. Signature-based solutions simply
can’t keep up with the pace of new malware variants, especially when
polymorphic code can generate a new signature as quickly as every 15 or
20 seconds.
securitymagazine.com
Congress passes bill forcing tech companies to disclose foreign software probes
The U.S. Congress is sending President Donald Trump legislation that would force
technology companies to disclose if they allowed countries like China and Russia
to examine the inner workings of software sold to the U.S. military.
The legislation, part of the Pentagon’s spending bill, was drafted after a
Reuters investigation last year found software makers allowed a Russian defense
agency to hunt for vulnerabilities in software used by some agencies of the U.S.
government, including the Pentagon and intelligence services.
Security experts said allowing Russian authorities to probe the internal
workings of software, known as source code, could help Moscow discover
vulnerabilities they could exploit to more easily attack U.S. government
systems.
reuters.com
Cyber
Security Summit Coming to Global Security Exchange
ASIS International, the world’s largest association of security
management professionals, today announced that Cyber Security Summit
will co-locate with Global Security Exchange (GSX), expanding the depth
of cyber education in the blockbuster GSX conference program. In the
first year of its rebrand following a 63-year history as the ASIS Annual
Seminar and Exhibits, GSX—the security industry’s flagship event—is
expected to attract more than 20,000 operational and cyber security
professionals and 550 exhibitors to the Las Vegas Convention Center,
Sept. 23-27.
The Cyber Security Summit, taking place Sept. 26-27, brings together top
government, industry, and academia thought leaders to exchange ideas and
engage in a dialogue to improve the state of cybersecurity. The event
provides an annual review of what has happened over the past year, an
update on current cyber trends, and most importantly a preview of what
organizations need to prepare for in the future.
asisonline.com
Unified Security Data: A Simple Idea to Combat Persistent, Complex Cyberattacks
Do you know what happens to your data when it's not in use? If the answer is no,
you need to fix that.
When cyberattacks take place in enterprises, the resulting data lives in various
siloes: security information and event management (SIEM) systems, emails,
ticketing systems, intel feeds, security devices, and more. Data flows in and
out of these systems, and security teams react to the data as best they can in
order to address threats as they arise. But what happens to the data once it's
not in use? Where does this data live long term, and how can it be applied to
future threats? Unifying data across an entire security architecture provides
the intelligence and context necessary to activate data on demand and use it to
identify and resolve persistent threats.
darkreading.com
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The Loss Prevention Research Council’s
Impact Conference Oct. 2-4 2017, A Six Episode Series
Filmed on location at the University of
Florida
THE LPRC CONDUCTS RESEARCH TO DEVELOP CRIME AND LOSS CONTROL SOLUTIONS
THAT
IMPROVES THE PERFORMANCE OF ITS MEMBERS AND THE INDUSTRY
The IMPACT Conference helps retailers & solutions partners better employ
research tools
to assess the real-world impact their LP efforts have on sales,
crime, and loss levels.
Introducing the Loss Prevention Research Council
Who They Are
& What They Do In this six-minute
episode, Gus Downing, Publisher & Editor of the D&D Daily, explains
what the LP/AP industry's only "Think Tank" - the
Loss
Prevention Research Council, is all about. Learn about its
mission, its objectives, its structure, and how it delivers "evidence-based"
solutions for the decision makers and leaders of the industry.
Over the next five episodes, which we urge every LP/AP executive to watch, you'll
learn and see how critical this "Think Tank" is to helping the industry develop
evidence-based solutions that solve the shrink and crime issues retailers face.
A few of these episodes are lengthy, as they dive deep into the LPRC model and
allow you to see exactly how these scientists, retail LP/AP leaders, and
solution partners are working together to help develop the solutions that help
you deliver best-in-class results.
So stay tuned and take the time to learn. As this is the LP/AP academic "Think
Tank".
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e-commerce
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The 'sinister side of eCommerce'
How The eCommerce Fakers Launder Money
Fake merchants — a problem that now underpins a $352 billion annual
money-laundering loophole in the U.S. alone — act like real merchants, with
no intention of ever becoming one. In this situation, faking it until they
make it is simply an illegal means to what has become a lucrative endgame
for them.
The eCommerce fakers,
Trulioo GM Zac Cohen told Karen Webster in a recent conversation, are an
increasingly common occurrence. They look and feel like a real merchant,
they are able to legitimately take payments, but they aren’t really in the
business of selling the goods as advertised goods.
Instead, Cohn noted, they either fake it by breaking into a legitimate
merchant’s data stream — and use their merchant account to sell illicit
goods and services — or go all the way and create fake digital
storefronts.
“Fake merchants are the sinister side of eCommerce, because we either are
dealing with [a] fraudster taking advantage of a less-mature or
less-hardened merchant account to forge data and divert funds through
different accounts,” Cohen said, “or we just have the folks that are just
illegally setting up a front business that have no intention of ever being
legitimate, and the whole thing is just fraudulent front-to-back.”
Fighting the fakers is hard, Cohen noted, because fraudsters are agile and
very much in the know. They tend to know, for example, that most transaction
fraud securities and controls are meant to find fraud after the fact. They
also know the security software is looking for illicit transactions.
“Fraudsters are quite good at creating transaction frauds that are very hard
to spot — double invoicing, or carousel transactions, for instance,” Cohen
explained. “Fraudsters are onto the fact [that] the industry is looking for
weird transactions — so they are making small changes in places like
invoices where it is hard to pick up, or taking advantage of the fact that
no one is really looking hard at them when they are setting up their firm.”
It’s not that monitoring after the fact isn’t useful or important, Cohen
said — as it is both of those things. It just isn’t sufficient to the
problem. Finding fake merchants after they’ve set up shop isn’t nearly as
good as exposing them before they can set up shop.
That’s where Cohen said Trulioo want to take the fight, using the company’s
Global Business Verification project to find the fake merchants before
they set up shop, during the onboarding process.
pymnts.com
Online Retailers Top Target of Credential Stuffing
Attacks Enabling ATO: Report
Up to 90 percent of the login traffic on e-commerce sites are automated
attempts to verify stolen username/password combinations, also known as
“credential stuffing,” according to a new report. The
2018 Credential Spill Report from Silicon Valley cyber-defense company
Shape Security is an examination of the source of compromised (i.e.,
“spilled”) login credentials, along with how and where bad actors are
validating those credentials.
Account takeover and new account creation fraud—two of the fastest-growing
fraud types affecting online merchants—rely on fraudsters obtaining valid
passwords. In addition to being a primary target of ATO, online retailers
are one of the major targets of the credential stuffing attacks that
validate stolen logins. According to the report, e-commerce retailers
collectively endure more than 130 million credential stuffing attacks per
day resulting in nearly 660,000 account takeovers.
cardnotpresent.com
China's third-largest ecommerce site faces
lawsuits in US over alleged counterfeits
Pinduoduo, the third-largest ecommerce website in China after Alibaba and
JD.com, is facing class-action lawsuits in the US following recent media
reports that it has been selling fakes and knock-offs over the platform
resulted in share tumbles.
Six law firms, including Rosen Law Firm, Pomerantz LLP, Law Offices of
Howard G. Smith, Faruqi & Faruqi LLP, The Schall Law Firm, and Bronstein,
Gewirtz & Grossman LLC, are looking to file class-action lawsuits on behalf
of individual investors who bought Pinduoduo shares, according to a Sina
news report on Saturday.
zdnet.com
UK Banks to Issue Passcodes via Smartphones
to Combat Payment Fraud for Online Shoppers
Amazon reports a loss for its
first month Down Under
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"Fraud is not a person - it is a dynamic grouping of statistics that deviate
from the norm."
Stuart B. Levine, CFI, CFCI
CEO, The Zellman Group & Zelligent
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ORC News
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Monroe, WA: Monroe Police ProAct Team working
with area Retailers; focus on criminal who traffic in drugs and stolen goods
Monroe’s ProAct Team of two police officers and a sergeant is tasked with
catching prolific criminals who traffic in drugs and stolen goods. The officers
can respond to 911 calls, too, but their main job, as the name suggests, is to
proactively patrol for crime. That means shifts cruising through parking lots of
Lowe’s, Walmart and Fred Meyer; checking license plates for drivers with
warrants; and coasting by drug houses to keep tabs on dealers. Kornish, a former
high school resource officer, first tested to join the team in December 2012,
around the time the city, the county and the nation saw an alarming upswing in
illicit opioid abuse and deaths. Heroin addicts struggle to find or keep a job.
They find two ways to make cash: selling drugs or stealing. So if you’re looking
for drug offenders, you look for who is ripping off retail stores. It’s like
fishing, Kornish says. You have to cast out where the fish are.
heraldnet.com
Polk County, FL: PCSD and Retailers
arrest 32 in Countywide ORC Sweep
The Polk County Sheriff’s Office’s Organized Retail Crime Unit arrested
32 people Monday, officials said. The arrests were part of a countywide
undercover investigation focused on catching thieves who hit multiple
Polk County stores. "Our Organized Retail Crime task force works with
area retailers and other law enforcement agencies to apprehend those who
are stealing. We are sending out this warning to everyone: If you steal
from stores in Polk County, you will go to jail." Sheriff Grady Judd
said. The arrests were made at the following businesses in the areas of
Auburndale, Mulberry, Lakeland, Lake Wales and Winter Haven: Bealls,
Bealls Outlet, Belk, Goodwill, Home Depot, Kohl's, Lowe's, Marshall's,
JCPenney, Target, TJ Maxx, Walgreens and Walmart.
Detectives worked with loss prevention personnel at each store, focusing
on identifying people who were trying to conceal items and leave the
stores without paying, and other methods of theft or fraud, the
Sheriff’s Office said. Of the 32 suspects arrested, six were juveniles,
who were charged with petit theft and grand theft. The total value of
items stolen by these suspects is $7,627.00.
wftv.com
Hilltown Township, PA, PA: Police arrest Giant Foods
employee for $6,400 theft of merchandise
Wendy Patricia Shultz, 43, was charged with retail theft after she took more
than $6,400 in store merchandise from Giant food store on Route 113 while
employed at the store, Hilltown Township Police Department said. The thefts
happened on nine different occasions between May 8 and June 9, police said.
montgomerynews.com
Las Vegas, NV: Sports store victim of serial
thefts over six months: over $6,000 in merchandise stolen
A string of thefts is forcing a Las Vegas sports gear store to relocate. First
and Goal in the southwest Las Vegas Valley has been hit more than half a dozen
times since the start of the year. Thieves have taken thousands of dollars in
merchandise from the store near Tropicana Avenue and Fort Apache Road. “They
each grabbed a handful of jerseys and darted out of the store,” store owner
Jamie Schefflin said while showing surveillance video. “It happens at least once
a month,” he said. Schefflin was behind the counter on Tuesday night. Once he
spotted the thieves, he chased them out of the store with a baseball bat. “It’s
pretty brazen,” Schefflin said. “There's no fear of them being caught or any
retribution.” In this latest incident, the thieves got away with more than
$1,300 in Dallas Cowboys jerseys.
fox5vegas.com
Garden Grove, CA: Thieves cutting security wires
and ripping out display phones at T-Mobile
Police are looking for a pair of thieves caught on security camera stealing a
handful of phones from a T-Mobile store in Garden Grove, damaging it on the
process. A man and a woman walked into the store around 2:30 p.m. Friday,
appearing to look at some phones attached to the demo counters. The man near the
entrance of the store suddenly rips an iPhone from the wall as the woman
attempts to do the same to a Samsung phone at the other end of the store. After
failing, the woman takes out wire cutters and has some trouble before finally
freeing the phone. This is the second time in as many months this store has been
robbed. They ended up escaping with four phones worth a total of roughly $4,000.
cbslocal.com
Detroit, MI: ORC 4th time Habitual Offender
sentenced to 40 months to 15 years
Sentencing has been handed down to a Detroit woman who fled from police after
she was caught shoplifting at a local store. 23-year-old Lamika Samon James will
serve 40 months to 15 years in the Michigan Department of Corrections. James was
sentenced Thursday in Livingston County Circuit Court by Chief Judge Miriam
Cavanaugh. James had previously pleaded guilty as charged to 3rd degree fleeing
a police officer and organized retail crime as a fourth-time habitual offender.
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Barboursville, WV: Two Women charged with shoplifting over
$1,700 of merchandise from Victoria’s Secret and Dick’s Sporting Goods
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Birmingham,
AL: Police investigating Fatal stabbing of Temp-Employee inside furniture store
The Jefferson County Coroner's Office on Monday identified the victim as
LaDaniel O'Neal Willis. He was 22 and lived in Akron, Al. Birmingham police were
dispatched at noon to Birmingham Wholesale on a report of a stabbing, Fire and
Rescue transported Willis to UAB Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police
said the suspect fled the scene before officers arrived. Authorities said the
stabbing happened in the break room at the furniture business. Willis was a temp
worker who was assigned to the Birmingham Wholesale.
al.com
Fort Worth, TX: Fight outside C-Store leads to
deadly shooting
A man was shot and killed during a fight outside a Fort Worth store Saturday,
and police say the gunman is still on the loose. It happened before 10:30 p.m.
Police said two men got into a fight over a woman. One man pulled a weapon and
shot the other man. The shooter fled. The man who was shot died at the hospital.
fox4news.com
Charlotte, NC: Intruder shot, killed during
break-in at the American Beauty and Garden Center
An alleged intruder was shot and killed by a business owner Monday
morning in southeast Charlotte. The reported break-in occurred around 4:33 a.m.
at the American Beauty and Garden Center on East Independence Boulevard.
Officers were called to the scene after being alerted to the break-in by an
alarm company. Around the same time, a person called 911 saying he was also
responding to the alarm and that he saw a man inside the store through his
security camera. Police said this same man called back a few minutes later and
explained that he had just shot someone at his business.
As officers and Medic arrived on scene, they found a man behind the store who
had been shot, as well as the owner of the business who admitted to shooting
him. The intruder was pronounced dead on scene. According to police, it appears
the man got into the business by smashing the front glass door. When the owner
arrived on scene, the man ran out of the front door and was shot by the owner at
that time. The intruder then ran behind the store where he collapsed.
fox46charlotte.com
Pittsburgh, PA: A man and woman shot & wounded
outside Giant Eagle store; suspect remains at large
Pittsburgh
Police have issued a warrant for a man suspected of shooting two people outside
a Giant Eagle in Greenfield on Friday afternoon. Police said Saturday that
21-year-old Zai Quan Henderson, of Hazelwood, is wanted in connection with the
shooting. Henderson should be considered armed and dangerous. It happened around
5:15 p.m. Friday in the 4200 block of Murray Avenue. A man and a woman were
shot. The man reportedly returned fire after he was struck. Pittsburgh’s
Director of Public Safety Wendell Hissrich described the shooting as a “gun
battle” outside the grocery store. One victim was said to have suffered serious
injuries while the other victim had only minor injuries.
cbslocal.com
Gainesville, FL: Police investigate report of a
man with a gun at Oaks Mall
Late Saturday, Gainesville Police investigated a report of a man with a gun at
the Oaks Mall. Just before 11:00pm they announced that, after searching store by
store, they had found no armed suspect. The Oaks Mall had extended hours on
Saturday, part of a tax break sales day.
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Corpus Christi, TX: Suspects in double Murder,
Jewelry store robbery appear
in court
Two men accused of taking part in a jewelry store robbery and a double murder
made an appearance in court Friday. 19-year-old Trebor Wheeler pleaded not
guilty to taking part in a robbery at Aman's Jewelers in La Palmera Mall last
March. He and several other men were also accused of killing Arturo Lopez and
his wife Miriam in their Corpus Christi home a few days later. Wheeler is in the
Nueces County Jail facing capital murder charges for that crime. He has already
pleaded not guilty in that case. Later Friday afternoon Robert Angel Lopez Jr.
pleaded not guilty to the same crimes, according to his attorney. No trial dates
have been set for either suspect.
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Hattiesburg, MS: 8 year old injured after firing gun
inside a car while parents shopped at Family Dollar
Portland OR: Two men shot outside 7-Eleven store in SE
Portland; both suffered non-life-threatening gunshot wounds
Indianapolis, IN: 2 shot, 1 critical, in west side liquor
store shootout
Albany, GA: 2 men shot inside a vehicle outside a C-Store
Robberies, Incidents & Thefts
Cordova,
TN: Kroger Loss Prevention employee shoots at car of man stealing meat
A loss-prevention employee at Kroger shot at a man who was trying to steal meat,
according to Memphis Police Department. The shooting happened around 11:20 a.m.
at the Kroger on North Germantown Parkway near the intersection of Trinity Road.
Police said a man was trying to steal meat and ran out of the store. A loss
prevention employee shot at the suspect's gray Chevy Malibu, MPD said. No
injuries were reported.
fox13memphis.com
Baltimore, MD: 7 Teens, 2 Adults Arrested After
Incident At White Marsh Mall
Police say nine people were arrested following a large disturbance at the White
Marsh Mall. Baltimore County Police said around 9 p.m. Saturday night, mall
security was trying to enforce a curfew and usher kids loitering off of the
parking lot. Authorities said that’s when a heated exchange occurred between the
group and mall security, and one adult attempted to punch an off-duty officer in
the face who was assisting mall security. Pepper spray had to be used to
disperse the crowd. Seven juveniles were arrested for disorderly conduct, along
with two adults. One of the adults is charged with second-degree assault on an
officer and resisting arrest.
cbslocal.com
Hong Kong, China: Man wearing silk stockings over
head threatens 7-Eleven employee with cutter, flees with $7,000 in predawn
robbery
According to official statistics, police handled 82 reports of robbery across
the city in the first six months of this year, down 8.9 per cent compared with
90 in the same period last year.
scmp.com
Union City, NC: Boy, 9, robbed at Lemonade stand at
gunpoint; thieves got away with $20
Fire & Arson
Stroudsburg, PA: Owner of 14K Outlet’s Fine
Jewelry charged with Arson of her store
Months after a fire broke out inside a jewelry store in Stroudsburg, it remains
boarded up. Now, investigators say the owner of the 14k Outlet's Fine Jewelry
Designs is the one who set it. They accuse owner Mona Siwiec of started the fire
that burned her store and have just charged her with arson.
wnep.com
Minneapolis, MN: Update - Police still seeking
woman who started the fire at Marshalls on July 15th
The blaze broke out at the Marshalls store at 600 Nicollet Mall between 11:30
a.m. and Noon on July 15. Surveillance footage from the store shows a woman
enter the premises and, during the two minutes she was in there, set a clothing
rack on fire. The fire caused damage worth more than $550,000. Police have
released images of the woman and some of the damage caused as the blaze spread.
bringmethenews.com
Sentencings & Charges
Los
Angeles, CA: Smash & Grab Robbery Leader sentenced to 55 years; stole over $6
Million in Watches
The leader of a robbery ring that stole $6 million worth of watches
from Southern California jewelry stores has been sentenced to 55 years in
federal prison. Prosecutors say Keith Walton, 47, of Los Angeles was sentenced
Friday for what a judge called a series of smash-and-grab robberies that
“terrified people and traumatized them.” Prosecutors say the ring was
responsible for at least 14 robberies or attempted robberies in shopping malls
over two years. The robbers fled with Rolexes and other high-end watches.
correctionsone.com
Jury
recommends Life in Prison for 2017 CVS murder
A jury has recommended a sentence of life in prison for Bernard Duse Jr., the
former CVS employee they found guilty Friday on charges of first-degree murder
in the 2017 shooting death of his former boss, Rex Mack Olsen. The jury also
recommended a three-year sentence on a weapons charge related to the murder. The
life sentence exceeds the state's minimum 20-year sentence on the murder charge.
The jury of seven men and five women delivered the recommendation after hearing
testimony from both Olsen's and Duse's families. Olsen, of Culpepper, was 64
when he was killed on July 26, 2017. Duse is 77. A formal sentencing hearing for
Duse has been scheduled for Oct. 17.
fauquier.com
Duluth, MN: Man accused of a 2014 Supermarket
Murder found not guilty
by mental illness
The man accused in the 2014 stabbing death of a Proctor, Minn., woman at a
Duluth grocery store has been found not guilty because of mental illness. Jesse
Dahlstrom will remain committed indefinitely to the Minnesota Security Hospital
in St. Peter following Sixth Judicial District Judge David Johnson's decision
filed Thursday, Aug. 2. Dahlstrom was charged with second degree murder in the
death of 75-year-old Sally Marie Pionk. She was killed by Dahlstrom in a random
knife attack while shopping at the West Duluth Super One store on a December
night.
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Antique Store – Winter Haven, FL – Burglary
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AutoZone – Ocala, FL – Armed Robbery
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C-Store – New Iberia, LA – Burglary
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C-Store – East Haven, CT – Burglary
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C-Store – Las Vegas, NV – Armed Robbery
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C-Store – Tustin, CA – Armed Robbery
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C-Store – Wamego, KS – Robbery
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C- Store – Oaklyn, NJ – Burglary
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Car Wash – Tulsa, OK – Armed Robbery
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Chuck E. Cheese – Miamisburg, OH - Burglary
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CVS – Norwalk, CT - Robbery
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Family Dollar – Waterbury, CT – Robbery
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Family Dollar Detroit, MI – Armed Robbery (Mound Road)
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Family Dollar – Detroit, MI – Armed Robbery ( 7 Mile Rd)
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Gas Station – Wausau, WI – Robbery
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Gas Station – Louisville, KY – Armed Robbery
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Gas Station – Appleton, WI – Armed Robbery
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Grocery – Dyersburg, TN – Armed Robbery
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Grocery – Louisville, KY – Burglary
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Hardware Store – Needles, CA – Burglary
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Liquor Store – Detroit, MI – Burglary
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Lowe’s – Ventura, CA – Armed Robbery
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McDonald’s – Chesapeake, VA – Armed Robbery
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McDonald’s Greenville, SC – Armed Robbery
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Motel – Castaic, CA – Armed Robbery
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O’Reilly Auto – Gainesville, FL – Armed Robbery
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Restaurant -Miamisburg, OH – Burglary
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Rite Aid – Gettysburg, PA – Robbery
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Rite Aid – Vandalia, OH – Robbery
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Smoke Shop – Vancouver, WA – Armed Robbery
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T-Mobile – Fresno, CA – Robbery
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Wendy’s - Saint Claire Shores, MI – Armed Robbery
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7-Eleven – Gloucester, VA – Armed Robbery
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7-Eleven – New Lenox, IL – Armed Robbery
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