ISSAQUAH, Wash. August 5, 2023 A piece of legislation highlighted Thursday aims to target organized retail crime, a problem the Washington Retail Association says costs businesses $2.7 billion a year statewide and puts employees and shoppers in danger. US Representative Kim Schrier says the Combating Organized Retail Crime Act would create an organized retail crime center […]
Miami FL July 31, 2023 A man who escaped a New Hampshire prison was identified as an armed man who took hostages and made threats at a Miami Beach Victoria’s Secret before he was shot and killed by a police officer. Darien Young, 29, who made a break from his transitional housing unit in the minimum-security […]
Spotsylvania VA July 27, 2023 Deputies responded to the Spotsylvania Towne Center on 07/23/2023 around 3PM after a security guard witnessed an individual drop a firearm on the floor of a business inside the mall. The young male quickly picked up the firearm off the floor and concealed it as if no one noticed. Responding […]
Ricon GA July 22, 2023 A longtime Lowe’s employee has been terminated for trying to stop a theft at a Georgia store, according to police. Three people went into the Rincon, Georgia, Lowe’s location and began putting merchandise into their carts, according to a July 20 Facebook post from the Rincon Police Department. The three […]
McLean VA July 19,2023 Three people from Philadelphia are behind bars in Virginia for attempting to steal high-priced luxury items from a retail store in Maryland. According to the Fairfax County Police Department in Virginia, the incident occurred in the Sak’s Fifth Avenue in Chevy Chase, Maryland, on July 13. Authorities say the store’s regional loss […]
SOMERSWORTH, N.H. July 18, 2023 A 52-year-old New Hampshire man has been arrested in the beating death of a 79-year-old man in the parking lot of a Walmart in southeastern New Hampshire, authorities said Saturday. Somersworth police said they arrested a local man, Brian Roberge, after responding to a call about the late Friday killing. At […]
Cleveland OH July 17, 2023 A mass shooting in Cleveland’s Warehouse District last weekend that sent nine people to the hospital was a devastating wake-up call to many in the city that the gun violence is out of control. “Gun violence has really spiked and gone through the roof in our city, and I’m just appalled […]
Denver CO July 9, 2023 It was a typical shift for King Soopers security employee Santino Burrola, when he was alerted to a theft that was in progres. “Sure enough when I looked there was a guy already half-headed out with a cart full of laundry detergent scent boosters what have you,” said Burrola. He […]
New York City NY July 7th, 2023 A fight between a CVS security guard and a man attempting to shoplift from a Midtown branch of the chain turned deadly Thursday when the employee knifed the thief in the torso after the shoplifter knocked him to the ground, according to the family and police sources said. Security guard […]
San Antonio TX July 4th, 2023 A security guard who attempted to diffuse a disturbance inside an H-E-B convenience store shot a man in the leg, according to San Antonio police. The shooting happened on Zarzamora Road near Southwest Military Drive on Monday night. SAPD said security guards arrived shortly after a man created a disturbance […]