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Four arrested in Moulton, AL Walmart, connected
to multiple electronic
burglaries
Four people have been arrested and charged with first degree theft
of property in connection with a burglary at the Moulton Walmart. Moulton
Police
Chief Lyndon McWhorter said three adults and a juvenile were apprehended and
charged after a string of burglaries at Walmarts in the state. The four are
alleged to have walked into the Moulton Walmart at approximately 11 p.m. on
Thursday, Sept. 18 and taken bolt cutters and crowbars from the tool
department
inside the store. They then are alleged to have used those tools to cut open
cases holding laptop computers and Playstation gaming systems, filling three
garbage cans full of the electronics. They then left through the garden
center,
using the bolt cutters to cut through the fencing to escape. Moulton Police
Chief Lyndon McWhorter said more than $13,000 worth of merchandise was
stolen
and none of it has been recovered yet. (Source
moultonadvertiser.com)
 Vancouver Police Make
$200,000 Shoplifting Bust Vancouver police have made a
significant shoplifting bust and recovered more than $200,000 in stolen
goods.
The Anti-Fencing Unit executed a search warrant on October 2nd around 8:00
p.m.
at a home near East 41st Avenue. The investigation into an organized retail
crime group that was selling high end stolen goods out of the address on
Fremlin
Street resulted in the search. Police believed that organizers contracted
out
retail thieves who stole goods from high end clothing stores. The items were
brought back to the home, organized, and then sold online through various
sites.
As many as 20 people per hour were seen coming and going from the home, many
arriving in luxury vehicles according to witnesses. Police will be
requesting
charges against three people and three vehicles believed to be used to
transport
the stolen goods were seized. (Source
globalnews.ca)
$10,000
in stolen Best Buy electronics seized by U.S Immigration at U.S/Canada
border in
Michigan A New Jersey man and woman are facing charges for
allegedly
stealing $10,000 worth of merchandise from the Fort Gratiot Best Buy. U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and
deputies from the St. Clair County Sheriff Department arrested Faru
Fernandez-Igua,
48, and Monica Evangelista-Laos, 30, late last week after they attempted to
enter Canada at the Blue Water Bridge. During a vehicle inspection by U.S.
Customs and Border Protection, officers found dozens of unopened consumer
electronics including: 39 iPods, two iPod nanos, external hard drives and
other
devices. The pair could not produce any proof of purchase for the items,
according to a statement from officials. Officers also found a metal pick
tool
in the vehicle. Upon review of store surveillance footage, Evangelista-Laos
can
be seen talking to a sales representative while Fernandez-Igua picked an
inventory case lock and subsequently loaded items into a black bag,
officials
said. The pair later left the store with a concealed device capable of short
circuiting fraud-prevention scanners located at the building’s exit.
(Source
thetimesherald.com)
Juneau, Alaska man arrested, charged with stealing $41k of jewelry from
Costco
Officers from the Juneau Police Department believe Joseph John Finn, 31,
took
$41,000 worth of jewelry from the store on September 17. Finn is charged
with
second-degree burglary and first-degree theft, both felonies. Finn also
faces a
charge of second-degree misconduct involving controlled substances, a
felony,
for drugs he allegedly possessed when arrested. 29-year-old Daricka Clark,
also
of Juneau, was arrested with Finn and charged with second-degree misconduct
involving a controlled substance. Officers recovered jewelry worth about
$32,000, but several pieces including high-end watches are still missing.
(Source
ktuu.com)
Woman pleads to Beauty Supply thefts; 72
burglaries in 5 states
A woman who was
part of a two-person theft ring that police say included 72 burglaries in
five
states pleaded guilty to four felony charges Wednesday in Stafford County,
VA.
Latoya Genevise Carter pleaded guilty to two counts of burglary and two
counts
of grand larceny in Stafford Circuit Court. Several other charges were
dropped.
According to the evidence presented by prosecutor Andrea Stewart, Carter and
Ronnie Latrell Riddick, who have a child in common and lived together in the
Tidewater area, committed thefts at businesses from Florida to Prince
William
County. Detective Ed McCullough’s investigation showed that most of the
thefts
involved either beauty supply stores or liquor stores. In Stafford, the pair
hit
Sally’s Beauty on Oct. 4 of last year, and 4 U Beauty Supply on Hope Road
and
Mega Beauty Supply at 367 Warrenton Road, both on Jan. 5.
(Source
fredericksburg.com)
Rite Aid employee steals $13,000
from Trenton, NJ store
A Rite Aid employee was
charged Tuesday with stealing more than $13,000 from a Trenton location,
police
said Wednesday. Joseph Jones, 24, transferred $13,120.70 from the Rite Aid
on
the 700 block of Greenwood Avenue to prepaid credit cards between Sept. 28
and
Oct. 5, Lt. Mark Kieffer said. Jones was arrested without incident at the
store
on Tuesday and charged with third-degree theft, Keiffer said.
(Source
nj.com)
Three Willingboro residents plead guilty in Va. cigarette smuggling
case
Three New Jersey residents, who were arrested in Stafford County
last
year for their roles in a cigarette-smuggling scheme, have pleaded guilty to
multiple charges. Xochilt Williams, 38; Mark Briscoe, 44; and Xavier
Mussenden,
19, entered pleas in Stafford Circuit Court on Wednesday. Williams and
Briscoe
were each convicted of racketeering, two counts of credit card forgery and
10
counts of credit card theft. police found more than 100 manufactured cards
in
Mussenden’s vehicle that had victims’ credit card information embedded in
the
magnetic strip. (Source
fredericksburg.com)
Woman steals almost $700 in items in stroller from Von Maur in Des Moines,
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