1.
A 35-YEAR-OLD Perth woman was charged for running down a shopping centre
security officer with her car when she was stopped for shoplifting.
Police said the woman, from the northern suburb of Balga,
was confronted by two loss-prevention officers outside a supermarket in Butler. They challenged her over food and cosmetics they believed
she had stolen.
The woman then allegedly sprayed
deodorant in the face of a male officer, jumped into her hatchback and drove
towards the female officer, but hit a metal pole.
Police said two other adults and two
11-year-old children were also in the car.
They said the accused then reversed
her vehicle and again drove at the female officer, striking her.
The officer was trapped under the
front of the car as it reversed.
The male officer pulled the woman
from the car and they struggled. Police arrived and arrested her.link
2.Michael
Pollara, Florida Man Accused Of Shoplifting $2 Million, Lived With 'Cat Family'
The investigation began when
nearly $900 of Lego sets vanished midday from the Toys R Us store in Boynton
Beach.
Before it was over, authorities would be tailing the alleged mastermind
believed to have stolen more than $2 million of toys from Toys R Us stores from
Maine to California.
The suspect: a 47-year-old,
globe-trotting Tamarac man who lives with his mother and his nine cats -- what
he calls his "cat family." Broward sheriff's detectives say he
accomplished his personal goal of stealing in all 50 states.
His name is Ignatius
"Michael" Pollara, and he's suspected of being one of South Florida's
most prolific shoplifters. His criminal case is one that leaves even veteran
law enforcement officers shaking their heads in disbelief.
In a span of about 200 days, reward
cards linked to him were handed to cashiers at 139 Toys R Us stores in 27
states, according to court records. There was one two-week stretch when the
cards were used up the East Coast from Palm Beach Gardens to Bangor, Maine, and
then back down to Virginia -- 23 stores in 11 states.
A day before his arrest,
Broward sheriff's detectives watched him and an admitted accomplice visit 21
stores in central Florida in less than 24 hours, according to court records.
They said they found the bounty from that spree when they searched Pollara's
cluttered home strewn with boxes and bags.link
3.A
SHOPLIFTER had a £20,000 crown court trial over claims a stolen joint of beef
reminded him of his dead grandmother.
John Casey was caught on Asda’s shop camera hiding a £12
roast in a rucksack at the Washington Galleries store last October and arrested
for theft.
But the 51-year-old denied he was
being dishonest and said he had moved the meat out of sight as it was giving
him “flashbacks” about his grandma, who died of a blood clot when he was a
child.
Casey, of Lumley Close, Oxclose,
Washington, was tried over two days by a jury at Newcastle Crown Court.
The unemployed dad-of-eight denied
the theft charge throughout.
The estimated cost per day of a
trial per day is £10,000 and the case was heard before John Milford QC, one of
the north’s top judges.
After just over an hour deliberation
Casey, who has never shoplifted in the past but has other convictions, was
found guilty.link
4.Fetus
Found In Bag of Teen Shoplifter at Manhattan Area Victoria’s Secret
It
starts like any episode of Gossip Girl: two high school girls in a New
York City Victoria’s Secret looking for some lingerie to pilfer. Then it
becomes a sad horrific mess and you’re weeping for society.
A security guard at the Herald
Square store had been alerted of possible teen shoplifters. When he encountered
the girls, he stopped and searched them, according to the Associated Press. That’s when he found a fetus.
The 17-year-old girls were shopping
at a Victoria’s Secret store in midtown Manhattan, said police, who were called
to the scene after a guard noticed a strong odor coming from one of the bags
and found the fetus. One of the girls told detectives she was carrying the
human remains because she had delivered a day earlier and didn’t know what to
do, authorities said. It wasn’t clear whether the fetus was alive or dead when
delivered.link
5.Shoplifters robbed while stealing from grocery
store
Two
accused shoplifters got a taste of their own medicine when they sought to clear
out of the crime--and found that a passing malefactor had broken into their own car.
Security
personnel were in the process of questioning Korin Vanhouten, 47, and Eldon
Alexander, 36, at an Ogden, Utah WinCo supermarket, accused of stealing makeup,
energy bars and batteries. At the end of the interrogation, they left with a
citation for attempted shoplifting.
However,
they soon stumbled on to the scene of a successful carlifting, with the awkward
discovery that while they were in the WinCo, someone--or several someones--had
broken into their car.
And
as it turned out, the ironies were just starting to multiply. For Vanhouten and
Alexander proceeded to report the ransacking of their vehicle to the same officer
who had issued them their shoplifting citation.link
6.
Shoplifter hung herself with police car seatbelt
A gaggle of groids apetended
a vigil for a teenager that has been in a coma since she was
arrested for shoplifting.
8-year-old Tanisha Williams
was pawcuffed in the back of a patrol car when police said she hung herself
with the seat belt. Her fambly has ooked to NewsChannel 36 it does not
believe the story.
Several
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officers approached the fambly and its apetorney
as the vigil finished. Those officers offered to allow the fambly to view the
in-car video taken the night Williams was arrested outside Citi Trends on
Freedom Drive.link
7.
Shoplifters Caught With $20K in Cosmetics
Police say they caught a pair
of women shoplifting at a JC Penney this week in the suburbs of Washington, DC.
No big deal, except the women had allegedly stuffed $20,000 in stolen beauty
products into their shopping bags and car trunks, the Washington Post reports.
Police accuse
Darquesha Wilkinson, 19, and Latasha Mungo, 24, of stealing high-end lotions,
makeup, and perfume in an ongoing scheme to resell the products at cheaper
prices. link
8. Woman Shot Dead For Shoplifting At Walmart
Shelly Frey, 27, was shot and killed
by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy at a Houston, TX., Walmart. The deputy was
suspicious of Frey, saying he thought she was stealing from the store, reports UK
Daily Mail.
Harris County Sheriff’s deputies
said that Shelly Frey, Tisa Andrews and Yolanda Craig were shoplifting when
they were stopped by Louis Campbell, a 26-year veteran of the force, who is
employed as a security guard at Walmart.
Campbell said that the women dashed
to their car, and when he went to open their car door, they drove away.
Campbell then thought it was his duty to stop the perpetrators so he fired the
deadly shot into the car which hit Frey in the neck.Link
9. Grandma Used 11-Year-Old Granddaughter To Shoplift
A grandmother is in jail in Atlanta
accused of using her granddaughter to help her shoplift.
Police said Howard used her
granddaughter to help her steal $139 worth of merchandise.
Morrow police said
she concealed the stolen goods in a baby bag, which was all caught on tape.
“That’s absolutely horrific. You
don’t do that,” shopper Vickie Harris told Jones.
The allegations floored Harris and
her daughter who were shopping at the Walmart. Harris said no
adult should have their loved ones participating in crime.
“It sets a bad example. You can’t
really get mad if they do it,” she said.
Howard told the judge in court she
is unemployed.link
10. Mother of Boston bombing suspects arrested for 'stealing $1,600 worth of clothes from Lord & Taylor'
Zubeidat K. Tsarnaeva, 45, was charged with two counts of malicious/wanton damage and defacement to property after allegedly swiping the merchandise from a Lord & Taylor in Natick, Mass. in June 2012.
She also spoke today to proclaim that her son's didn't plant the bombs and that they are ''100 per cent innocent.' link