3 women ORC gang hits Seattle Safeway stores for liquor  A 23-year-old Seattle woman who is suspected of helping two other women steal bottles of liquor from the Bainbridge Island Safeway and other supermarkets across Kitsap County. Ronisha Charnae Wyndon was charged with two felonies; organized retail theft in the second degree, and retail theft with extenuating circumstances in the third degree. Authorities claim that Wyndon and two other women targeted Safeway stores in Kitsap County. The trio allegedly worked as a team and took hundreds of dollars in alcohol from groceries in Silverdale, Bainbridge Island, East Bremerton and Port Orchard by placing bottles of booze in their shoulder bags and then walking out of the stores. (Source bainbridgereview.com)






Former Phoenix Sun’s Richard Dumas pleads not guilty; video released shows a different story  The U.S. Marshals Service says Dumas, 44, was arrested Thursday in Litchfield Park on a warrant charging him with eight counts of organized retail theft. Dumas still has quick hands. (Source azfamily.com)


Two women plead guilty to using stolen medical records from Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore in $1 Million credit card scheme  Two women pleaded guilty Friday to using stolen medical records to open or take over credit accounts at department stores and setting up a cottage industry selling fraudulently obtained goods. Chanell Cole, 30, and Yolanda Welch, 39, are scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Baltimore in April. Until 2010 Cole, who is from Owings Mills, was the only employee of a rheumatologist at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore and had access to the doctor's files, which she abused to obtain the names addresses and social security numbers of patients. If they did, the group hijacked those accounts and made purchases over the phone. In total the group, which operated between 2010 and early 2013, bought almost $1 million of merchandise from the three stores. (Source baltimoresun.com)