Memphis, TN: Kroger /Shelby Co. Sheriff partnership crushes retail crime
Phillip Harris is a 49-year-old career criminal with more than 80 arrests on his rap sheet thought he'd swipe about a grand's worth of over-the-counter medication from Kroger and walk out with a smart aleck grin on his face. He had no clue that grin and the grip he had on those medicine bottles were all caught on camera in one of the Mid-South's most sophisticated retail crime-fighting networks: the Kroger/Shelby County Sheriff's ALERT crime-fighting network. Kroger's cameras captured Harris taking between $700 and $1,000 of medicine over three visits. According to Kendall Neal of the Regional Organized Crime Information Center (ROCIC) in Nashville, between the two-year periods 2008-10 and 2011-13, retail theft cases increased 2.3 percent statewide in Tennessee. But between those same periods, in areas of Tennessee with crime-fighting partnerships like the Kroger/Shelby County Sheriff ALERT team, retail theft dropped an average of nearly eight percent. wmcactionnews5.com

Grand Rapids, MI: Four arrested for Counterfeiting 100+ Credit Cards; Ulta Beauty LP Mgr tipped off Police
Four people face criminal charges after being found with more than a hundred counterfeit credit cards and thousands of dollars in apparently ill-gotten merchandise. Police were tipped off to suspicious behavior from the suspects by a loss prevention manager for Ulta Beauty. Authorities say the four suspects had been to three Ulta stores in Kent County and used multiple credit cards to buy gift cards and merchandise. Investigators say that when they searched the suspects' vehicle and the Motel 6 where they were staying, they found more than 100 counterfeit or cloned credit cards bearing various names. Police say they also found thousands of dollars in merchandise from various stores, some of which looked like it had been prepared for shipping. Receipts recovered indicated more items had already been shipped to Miami. woodtv.com

Monroe County, PA: Crossings Outlets hit in theft spree of nearly $10K in clothes
A trio from New York visited the Crossings Premium Outlets in Monroe County on Wednesday and left with nearly $10,000 in stolen clothes, but they never made it back to New York. Pocono Township police stopped them on Interstate 80 after the outlet mall reported suspects in retail thefts from six stores had just drove off. Police said they stopped a vehicle matching the description of the suspects' vehicle nearby on Interstate 80. Police identified the vehicle's three occupants all of Queens, New York. Police also found nearly $10,000 in clothes inside the vehicle that the stores reported stolen. lehighvalleylive.com

Kansas City, MO: Baby falls out of car when shoplifting suspects try to flee store
According to police on the scene at about noon, three people were shoplifting from Target. Police say when they tried to drive away with their stolen merchandise, the 4-month-old baby girl and a female suspect fell out of the rental car because a back door was apparently not properly closed and the child was not restrained in a car seat. Witnesses tell police the male driver then sped off at a high-rate of speed and tried to get away with the other female suspect, but police rushed in and stopped the white, four-door Ford Fusion and its occupants. Paramedics took the baby to the hospital and she's expected to be okay. fox4kc.com

Florence, AL: Man faces multiple theft charges: over $20,000 in bad checks

Centralia, WA: Kaisha R. Walker, 21, of University Place, Jalexis B. Ezell, 20, of Tacoma and Chadrick C. Singleton, 25, of Lakewood were arrested in the 100 block of West High Street on suspicion of organized retail theft

Prattville, AL: Police seek Target X-box thief; stole 3 Xbox Convertible Laptops

Wrentham, MA: A woman accused of using a stolen credit card to purchase over $900 worth of merchandise at the Wrentham Village Premium Outlets made "Mass Most Wanted"

UK: Sandy man part of gang jailed for 17 years for cigarette thefts