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Defense questions witness credibility in $500,000 Theft Ring case in Las Vegas
Defense lawyers launched an opening-day offensive on Tuesday against the
government’s chief witness in the federal trial of three Cuban immigrants
charged with stealing drugs and high-quality merchandise from delivery vans and
warehouses around the Las Vegas Valley. The witness, Yordani Corona Del Toro
struck a deal with federal prosecutors in the case to escape a sentence of life
in prison in Nevada as a habitual criminal. Assistant U.S. Attorney Christina
Brown told the jury that Del Toro spent six months working undercover with FBI
agents and Las Vegas police to break up the theft ring in 2013. During that
time, the informant secretly recorded conversations with the defendants and
helped them plan the robbery and kidnapping of a delivery van driver under the
watchful eyes of FBI agents, Brown said. Members of the theft ring are alleged
to have conducted surveillance at retailers around the valley to determine
delivery patterns. Once a delivery truck was identified, members followed the
truck to a warehouse where the merchandise was stored. Torches were used to cut
holes in metal garage-style doors to enter the warehouses and steal the goods,
which were loaded into waiting vehicles, authorities alleged FBI agents assigned
to an organized crime squad linked the ring to the Oct. 15, 2012, warehouse
theft of $573,756 in exclusive Coach merchandise, including purses, in southeast
Las Vegas. (Source
reviewjournal.com)
Cadott, WI woman sentenced to probation: admitted to Police she steals from
Walmart 3 times a day A 50-year-old Cadott woman has been placed on
probation for two years after pleading guilty in Barron County Court to a felony
count of being party to retail theft for taking $640 worth of items from the
Rice Lake Walmart store. En route to jail, Thiede told an officer she steals
from Walmart three times a day, and Thiede told Wooten that Thiede would go back
to Walmart and steal more items to pay off Wooten’s arrest warrants in another
county. (Source
leadertelegram.com)
Walmart Loss prevention employees prevent $1,000-plus theft in Lancaster County,
PA A man and a woman were behind bars this week after a Loss
Prevention agent caught them trying to make off with over $1,000 in goods. Both
26-year-old Columbia resident Amanda L. Clawson and 35-year-old Michael S.
Eisenhart, of Lancaster, were charged with felony retail theft Monday after East
Lampeter Township police were called to the store. Loss prevention first noticed
Eisenhart wheeling a shopping cart full of outdoor camping and fishing equipment
up to the front doors of the store on video surveillance at about 4:21 p.m.
Eisenhart then left the cart, but, a short time later, Clawson walked and pushed
the cart outside and up to a vehicle where Eisenhart was waiting for her. When
police arrived a short time later to take the two into custody, officers learned
that both Eisenhart and Clawson were wanted on bench warrants for separate
previous offenses. (Source
pennlive.com)
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