Santa Fe ORC gang of 5 busted hitting Target stores
The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office arrested five people this week who are suspected of stealing credit cards from mailboxes and using them to charge electronics that they sold to buy drugs, according to a court document. An employee of Target at 3550 Zafarano Drive alerted deputies that a customer had purchased items using three different credit cards at the store between March 30 and April 20. Deputies interviewed Moreno and Schroeder on Monday, the probable cause statement says, and they both confessed to purchasing merchandise from Target with stolen credit cards. They also said, according to the statement, that they would either sell or exchange the merchandise for drugs. According to the statement, they admitted that they stole the credit cards from Santa Fe County residents' mailboxes late at night or early in the morning. Deputies are still investigating who else might have been involved in the scheme, the statement says. santafenewmexican.com

ORC Waterford, MI., family - father, mother & son - sentenced for ORC for hitting Walmart & Meijer stores  Ashlei Dawn Conway and her husband Roger Dale Conway were each sentenced to 23 days in the county jail and given credit for already serving that time for organized retail crime and second-degree retail fraud for stealing DVDs and video games from the store on M-59 in January. Roger Conway's son, Devlynn Neal Portscheller, was sentenced on the same charges to three days in the county jail, time he has already served, and 18 months probation. The deputy, who stopped their vehicle after one incident saw a large amount of sealed merchandise and asked the driver, identified as Roger Conway, where the items came from, and the suspect replied he did not know anything about it. However, while being booked into the jail, Roger Conway allegedly told the deputies, "We (expletive) up." When a deputy asked why, the suspect replied: "We are hungry." Among the stolen loot found in the vehicle, investigators said nearly $740 of it had been stolen from the Genoa Township Meijer earlier the same day.  livingstondaily.com

Grab-And-Run Shoplifting Crew Busted in Oakland, CA.
Lafayette police say they have located a car used in two downtown "grab and run" theft cases, arrested one of three suspects and are looking for the remaining pair. The trio, so far unidentified, are suspected in two thefts at the same downtown business on Thursday and Friday. In the two thefts they stole $4,000 in merchandise. news24-680.com

Philly man admits hitting PA State Police patrol car while fleeing police from The Home Depot  Philadelphia man will serve time in state prison for his role in an organized retail theft ring that preyed on area Home Depot stores and for crashing into an Upper Moreland patrol car as he fled from police following one of those shoplifting incidents. Davin M. Jeter, 29, was sentenced to one to five years in a state prison and to an additional 5-year probation sentence after he completes his parole time following his guilty plea Thursday in Montgomery County Court to charges of theft, aggravated assault on a police officer and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. theintell.com

Pennsylvania man sentenced to 30 months in for Target Burglary
A Pennsylvania man suspected to be involved in as many as 14 retail burglaries around the country was sentenced to 30 months in prison on Thursday for breaking into a local Target department store in February. Elijah Aiken, 32, pleaded guilty to one count of third-degree burglary in Bristol Superior Court. He was arrested Feb. 4 along with two other co-defendants when they allegedly used a torch to cut a hole in the rear door of the Target at 600 Executive Blvd. All three men were arrested. Police said 14 other Target stores have been burglarized in the same manner in other Northeastern states, Florida and Texas. Target has reported $240,000 in losses. centralctcommunications.com

Woman Charged with Stealing $1500+ Worth of Baby Formula in Nashua, NH  Nashua police said a Rhode Island woman turned herself on a warrant this week for stealing more than $1,500 worth of baby formula from a local store earlier this year. Nicole Maynard, 36, of 250 Washington St., Providence, was charged with felony theft. Police said on Jan. 22, she went into Nashua's Buy Buy Baby, loaded a shopping cart with formula, then fled the store. A surveillance camera captured the theft, police said. Maynard turned herself in to Nashua police on Monday. patch.com

Nearly $700 worth of hygiene products stolen from Walgreens in Chicago
Someone took more than $690 worth of items from Walgreens on Wednesday, police said. The assistant manager at Walgreens, 635 Chicago Ave., told police a man entered the store around 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday and took a variety of hygiene products off the shelves, putting them in his bag, Dugan said. The man then walked out of the store without paying, police said. dailynorthwestern.com

Woman slips more than $1,100 worth of Radio Shack merchandise under dress  A woman in a floral dress walked into a Radio Shack in Weston, slipped several computer parts under her dress and walked out with $1,140 worth of merchandise. The Feb. 26 theft was caught on surveillance video. It took a store employee several hours to notice that a large section of shelving was empty. Broward Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Dani Moschella said a man acted as a lookout while the woman placed seven computer components under her dress. It appeared that there was a bag hidden under the fabric of her dress. local10.com