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Police investigate money laundering operation at Colorado Cash for Gift Card
stores News5 has uncovered a new sophisticated operation
allowing
thieves to turn stolen merchandise into cash in a matter of minutes. You may
have seen a "Cash For Gift Cards" store location on your way to
work. They buy
your unwanted retail gift cards for cash and accused of money laundering.
According to a search warrant, police say Justin Kruse, the owner of
"Cash For
Gift Cards" purchased hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cards
he knew
were illegally obtained. Police say stores like Kruse's are a quick and
easy
avenue for illegal trade, and business is booming. Over the past few years,
Kruse has opened up located in Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo. Cash For
Gift Cards offers to pay customers up to 76-percent of the card's value.
koaa.com
Dover, DE Police calls new Shoplifting Mugshot program a success
A controversial approach to reducing shoplifting by posting suspects'
arrest
photos has been declared a success in Dover, despite complaints about
violations
of civil rights. The four-month pilot project called the "Shoplifter
Notification Program," which started in August, produced a 19 percent
drop in
such crimes, city police said. "That was huge," said Cpl. Mark
Hoffman, Dover
Police Department's public information officer, who suggested the
project after
seeing similar efforts on other forces' webpages. The drop in
shoplifting was
especially significant, he said, because the project period included the
end-of-year holidays. "That's our busiest time of year for
shoplifting," Hoffman
said, adding stores also are their busiest and youngsters with school
vacations
and time on their hands tend to raise the rate of merchandise thefts.
delawareonline.com
10 iPads stolen from Columbus, OH Walmart
The theft of 10 Apple iPads from a store on the Northwest Side is the crime
of
the week in the Crime Stoppers program. Shortly before 5 a.m. on Jan. 12, a
taxi
took two men from the Varsity Inn, to the Wal-Mart. In the electronics
section
of the store, one man was a lookout while the other used a hammer to smash
the
glass in a display case. He then removed the iPads and placed them on a
shelf
nearby. The two men walked around the store for a few minutes, then put the
iPads in a bag, left the store and rode off in the waiting cab.
dispatch.com
UK: Granny-led family shoplifting ring for jail if caught again in
Belfast
An organized family shoplifting gang consisting of a grandmother and two of
her
granddaughters have been warned that if they appear in court again they are
going straight to prison. Appearing at Londonderry Magistrates Court was
Jessie
Powell (65), of Ballycolman estate in Strabane, who faced six counts of
theft of
goods. Her two granddaughters appeared as well. The judge warned
their
attorneys not to try and argue that this was anything but an organized
shoplifting ring as this would be "insulting everyone's
intelligence". He
said: "These three people don't understand what the truth is. This
is clearly a
premeditated, organised spate of shoplifting in Castlederg and Derry."
He said:
"These three people don't understand what the truth is. This is
clearly a
premeditated, organised spate of shoplifting in Castlederg and Derry."
The judge
gave them suspended sentences and saaid if you come back you're going to
prison.
belfasttelegraph.co.uk
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