Wednesday, July 16, 2014

A crime of greed; not need

We all pay a lot more for goods because of shoplifting; from my observations and experience it is a crime of greed and not need. One of the larger shoplifting cases that I will never forget involved the wife of a doctor who stole thousands... of dollars in clothes for a trip to the Bahamas she was making the next day. I review shoplifting stats from time to time and noted last week we had 22 shoplifting arrests.
Photo: We all pay a lot more for goods because of shoplifting; from my observations and experience it is a crime of greed and not need.  One of the larger shoplifting cases that I will never forget involved the wife of a doctor who stole thousands of dollars in clothes for a trip to the Bahamas she was making the next day.  I review shoplifting stats from time to time and noted last week we had 22 shoplifting arrests. 

Here is some info from last week's arrests:

-Several arrests involved theft of energy drinks and cosmetics 
-2 packages of fishing line from Shopko (less than $15)
-Hot Pockets from Walgreens
-People filled baskets or carts with merchandise and just walked right out of the store
-Male pulled a knife on loss prevention personnel over a $35 watch
-Female loaded two grocery bags full at Cub and walked out with $145 in food.

Not to make light of a serious subject, but in one of the cases an officer told the thief the following:

I ALSO ADVISED HE WAS NOT GOOD AT SHOPLIFTING AND SHOULD STOP. HE AGREED.
Here is some info from last week's arrests:

-Several arrests involved theft of energy drinks and cosmetics
-2 packages of fishing line from Shopko (less than $15)
-Hot Pockets from Walgreens
-People filled baskets or carts with merchandise and just walked right out of the store
-Male pulled a knife on loss prevention personnel over a $35 watch
-Female loaded two grocery bags full at Cub and walked out with $145 in food.

Not to make light of a serious subject, but in one of the cases an officer told the thief the following:

I ALSO ADVISED HE WAS NOT GOOD AT SHOPLIFTING AND SHOULD STOP. HE AGREED.

1 comment:

  1. We had a big high guy robbing our store of goods, he kept stuffing jerky and sweettarts

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