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Perkins Township, OH: Police
and Retailers team up to bust store owners in $20,000 shoplifting scheme fueling
heroin epidemic
Perkins Township served three
search warrants on Thursday in a shoplifting scheme they say was helping fuel
the area's heroin problem. The detective bureau started investigating Double E's
Buy and Sell five months ago. Perkins Township police said the owners, Eric
Petrick and Emmanuel Harvey, knowingly bought stolen merchandise to sell on eBay
from shoplifters knows as boosters. "We found through the investigation that
this business not only was involved in the buying and selling of stolen
merchandise but through one aspect of the enterprise was helping to fuel the
heroin epidemic in our area for these boosters," police said in a news release
on Thursday. "Most of the known boosters are or have been addicted to the drug
and this group enables these people to obtain cash to support their addiction."
Boosters targets Dick's Sporting Good, JCPenney, Kroger, Walmart, Home Depot,
Sears, Target and Meijer. According to police, the group fenced stolen items
worth seven figures over the last three years. One store lost $20,000 in
merchandise over just four months.
fox8.com
Nashville, TN: Fencing Operation - First Stop
Market Raided as Part of Stolen Property Investigation
A three-month investigation into The First Stop Market's alleged
dealings with stolen merchandise resulted in today's police department raid on
the business and the seizure of beer, energy drinks, detergent, and cigarettes.
Beginning in March, Pawn & Fraud Unit detectives investigated the market,
located at 508 Old Hickory Boulevard. The market's owner operator, Ashraf
Ibrahem, 50, is alleged to have purchased merchandise on three separate
occasions from a police operative who clearly represented the items as being
stolen. Ibrahem paid the operative about a third of what the merchandise was
actually worth. Kroger Organized Retail Crime personnel assisted in this
investigation.
nashville.gov
Lebanon, PA: Fencing
Operation shut down, Reduced sentenced for cooperation, dropping Organized
Retail Theft charge
The last person sentenced in
the JT's Buy and Sell saga has been credited with stepping forward to help
police close down the illegal enterprise. Judge Bradford H. Charles sentenced
Dwaine N. Wike, 39, on Wednesday to intermediate punishment (probation) for 23
months and ordered him to pay fines of $200 and restitution of $5,732 for
receiving stolen property and conspiracy. He will serve the first five months of
his probation under house arrest. In return for his cooperation in the
investigation, prosecutors withdrew charges of corrupt organizations, dealing in
proceeds of unlawful activities, violating the Pawnbrokers License Act by not
having a pawnbroker's license, organized retail theft and conspiracy for persons
not to possess firearms.
ldnews.com
 Pacifica, CA: East Bay women
arrested in theft of large amount of baby formula
Two women were arrested Wednesday afternoon after allegedly stealing a large
amount of baby formula from a store in Pacifica. Police said officers responded
at 4:56 p.m. to the Linda Mar Safeway lon reports of a theft. An employee told
officers that two women left the store in a white Dodge Caravan with a large
amount of stolen baby formula, heading north on Highway 1. Officers located the
vehicle a short distance away and conducted a traffic stop. The store employee
was able to positively identify the women in the burglary, and evidence from the
vehicle suggested the two were involved in a large-scale theft ring throughout
the Bay Area. Akasia Palmore, 21, of Rodeo and Zanae Jones, 21, of Antioch were
arrested and booked into the San Mateo County Jail on suspicion of burglary,
criminal conspiracy and providing a false name to a police officer. The women
were also booked on several out of county warrants for theft.
kron4.com
Related Story: Akasia
Palmore was arrested on Mother's Day in connection to the theft of $11,000 in
Sonoma County, stealing from at least seven pharmacies and grocery stores,
according to Santa Rosa police
Portage, IN: CVS Pharmacy
Employee arrested in $5,700 theft
CVS employee
was arrested Wednesday night and charged with stealing $5,713 of medication over
a three-year period. Tammie Armstrong, 57, of Portage, was charged with felony
theft. Police were called to CVS Wednesday evening. The Loss Prevention officer
at the store said they had been investigating Armstrong regarding the theft of
medication from January 2013 to the present. The Loss Prevention officer told
police Armstrong had been removing tablets of Phentermine from the store, in
all, the 3,717 missing tablets were valued at $5,713.
nwitimes.com
Daytona
Beach, FL: Man sought in theft of $3000 in eyewear frames from Volusia Mall
Lenscrafters
Investigators are looking for a man
they say entered the LenCrafters store at the mall and made off with 11 pairs of
sunglasses worth over $3,000. The theft occurred earlier this month on May 13
just after 8 p.m. at the Volusia Mall store.
news-journalonline.com
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