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Ocala, FL: Man charged with
plotting to Bomb Target stores in effort
to drive stock price down
A grand jury has charged a Florida man with plotting to set off explosions in
Target stores so that he could gain financially from a plunge in the company's
stock price. An indictment filed Wednesday in federal court in Ocala charges
49-year-old Mark Barnett with five counts of attempted arson, possession of a
destructive device and unlawful possession of a weapon. A criminal complaint
says the convicted felon offered a friend $10,000 to place packages of food
filled with explosives at Target stores along the East Coast in February. The
friend instead went to authorities. Authorities say Barnett hoped to buy
Minnesota-based Target stock after the price plunged. Barnett was being held at
the Marion County Jail and couldn't be reached for comment. Online court records
showed no attorney listed for him. In another recent bomb plot linked to
financial gain, German prosecutors say a 28-year-old man schemed to net millions
by betting against a prominent soccer team and then bombing the team's bus. The
officials said last month that the German-Russian citizen, identified only as
Sergej W. in line with German privacy laws, took out a five-figure loan to bet
that Borussia Dortmund shares would drop, then bombed the team's bus April 11
when it left the team hotel in an attack he tried to disguise as Islamic
terrorism.
abcnews.go.com
Three Rulings in One Week on
Walmart's Mexico Bribery Case
Wal-Mart CEO Can Be Deposed In Mexico Bribery Case
An Arkansas federal judge rejected
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s request to prevent its CEO Doug McMillon from being
deposed in a securities class action over the company's alleged Mexican bribery
scheme, saying in a ruling on Thursday that he is one of a small handful of
people with highly relevant information.
The class of investors, which is led the city of Pontiac General Employees'
Retirement System, or PGERS, seeks damages from Wal-Mart related to a drop in
its stock price that followed a 2012
New York Times report saying the company had turned a blind
eye to large-scale bribery at Wal-Mart de Mexico. The plaintiffs have accused
Wal-Mart of using sweeping assertions of privilege
to
encumber discovery, and U.S. District Judge Susan Hickey's ruling
marks their second win on evidence issues
in one
week.
McMillon, who didn't show up at a previous deposition, was the head of
Wal-Mart's international division before he became CEO in 2014 and "was one of
the highest ranking decision-makers" in the retailer's effort to figure out its
response to the Times report, Judge Hickey wrote. She said that Wal-Mart's
"general and conclusory assertion" that he did not need to be deposed didn't cut
it.
"Given McMillon's direct and personal involvement in the acts and issues in this
case, it appears to the court that McMillon has unique knowledge of relevant
issues in this litigation that only he can explain," the judge wrote. "There is
no basis on which the court can conclude that plaintiff is attempting to harass
McMillon or inflate discovery costs."
The decision comes shortly after Wal-Mart was ordered to
turn
over investigative documents and the plaintiffs were given
permission to take another crack at interviewing Ron Halter, a former
FBI agent whom the company reportedly turned to for its
initial probe into the Mexican bribery scandal.
The Halter decision turned on issues of attorney-client privilege and whether
the reports he filed with the company constituted pre-litigation "work product"
that is broadly exempt from disclosure, but Judge Hickey's decision on
McMillon's deposition turned on the apex doctrine, which is meant to focus
discovery on lower level staff with knowledge of a legal dispute and protect
busy executives at an organization's highest levels from being dragged into
proceedings.
law360.com
Mastercard & Visa Say EMV
Has NOT Caused Spikes in CNP
Common knowledge was wrong: EMV didn't cause web
fraud to spike
Card Brands Defend Signature vs. PIN
"It's true that fraud dollars from CNP are growing, but it's not increasing as a
percent of total sales," said Stephanie Ericksen, vice president of risk
products at Visa, in a panel discussion at SourceMedia's Card Form this week in
Austin.
Melanie Gluck, Mastercard's vice president of mobile and e-commerce, agreed with
Visa's conclusion. "We're watching trends closely but we haven't seen many
spikes in CNP fraud," she said.
Gluck noted that tools to prevent CNP fraud are rapidly improving, allowing
merchants to fight back against any e-commerce fraud they see, regardless of the
cause.
"We're seeing the emergence of new tools to prevent online fraud, including 3-D
Secure 2.0, due out later this year, and different risk-scoring methods, and
these are all going to be very important for merchants using a multilayered
approach to preventing fraud," Gluck said.
Visa's Ericksen acknowledged there are "pain points" in the system for all
parties, but urged merchants to do more to prevent fraud in all environments.
For example, in the wake of the EMV liability shift, the percent of fraud from
"fallback" transactions-where the EMV transaction failed,
prompting the merchant to authorize the payment using the magnetic stripe on the
card-has gone up, according to Ericksen.
"Fallback fraud is only 2.6% of fraud, but it's rising, and
we're advising merchants to be vigilant and watch for gaps where
fraudsters are coming into the store and doing (fraudulent) fallback
transactions five or six times in a row," she said.
But Mark Horwedel, CEO of the Merchant Advisory Group (MAG), was
unconvinced that there was no connection between EMV and online fraud.
"CNP fraud is rising, partly because the (e-commerce) channel has grown but it's
also because CNP fraud is the low-hanging fruit for fraudsters," he said. "We've
been through a period with a lot of data breaches, and we'll emerge from all
this with a less-than-adequate response."
paymentssource.com
Credit, Debit card fraud
alerts up 15% since 2015
Credit and debit card fraud alerts are up 15% from two years ago, according to a
new CreditCards.com report. 31% of U.S. adults have received a fraud alert
regarding a credit card and 25% have received one concerning a debit card. Click
here for more information:
http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/credit-card-fraud-alert-poll.php
37% who have been contacted about potentially fraudulent transactions say all of
the transactions were entirely legitimate purchases. Another 15% say most were
legitimate.
cuinsight.com
Former President George W.
Bush set to open 63rd ASIS Conference
as lead Keynote
ASIS International, the world's leading association for security management
professionals, has announced its lineup of keynote speakers for its 63rd Seminar
and Exhibits to be held September 25-28 at the Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention
Center in Dallas, Texas, with former United States President George W. Bush
addressing attendees at the event opening. The four-day event, which will draw
22,000 security professionals from across the globe, also features keynotes from
Scott Klososky, technology visionary and founder of Future Point of View, and
Richard DesLauriers and Ed Davis, lead investigators into the Boston Marathon
bombing. President Bush will open the conference on Monday, September 25. The
43rd President of the United States and author of the bestselling memoir
Decision Points (2010)-a candid account of the defining decisions in his
presidency and personal life-will share insights on his eight years in the White
House, his experiences with world leaders, the nature of public leadership and
decision making, and his perspective on current domestic and international
issues.
securityinfowatch.com
Hudson River Cafe - "Once
NYPD's Favored Hang Out"
Cafe Owner Cops To $12M Fraud Days Before Trial
Faces Separate Charges with NYPD Top Officials
Former liquor wholesaler and restaurant owner Hamlet Peralta pled guilty to wire
fraud Thursday, admitting to taking investor dollars and using the money to
renovate his Harlem cafe and repay other investors in what federal prosecutors
called a $12 million Ponzi scheme.
Peralta's plea before U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest came four days
before he was scheduled to go before a Manhattan federal jury in a trial
with ties to two pending corruption cases targeting New York City law
enforcement. With charges against NYPD Deputy Chief Michael Harrington and NYPD
Deputy Inspector James Grant; and against Norman Seabrook, the former head of
the New York City correction officers union.
The defendant admitted to using investor dollars to renovate his Hudson River
Cafe, once said to have been a favored NYPD hangout, and to repay earlier
investors. As well as for personal expenses, large cash payouts, and payments to
investors to keep it going.
As part of his plea agreement, Peralta agreed to make $3.9 million in
restitution. He faces a suggested prison term of between 51 and 63 months at his
scheduled Sept. 8 sentencing, per his plea agreement. law360.com
Selling Black Market Drugs
to Pharmacies Across the Country
Drug Wholesaler Gets 5 Years In $100M Prescription
Meds Fraud
A New York federal judge on Thursday sentenced the owner of a wholesale drug
distribution company to five years in prison for selling more than $100
million of black-market prescription drugs, for which he earned more than $13
million in just over two years.
Crowell, the owner and operator of Utah-based Green Valley Medical Distributors
LLC, had
defrauded private insurers as well as Medicaid and other government programs
out of hundreds of millions of dollars by purchasing contraband drugs at deeply
discounted prices and reselling them to pharmacies across the country
as legitimately sourced medications, according to the government.
law360.com
Island Nation Responds to
Skimming & Credit Card Scams
Cayman Islands Black List Romanians & Bulgarians -
Now Need Travel Visas
One legislator Arden McLean called for much tougher action, saying
Romanians should be banned from the country as a result of credit card fraud by
some of its citizens. "If we see the Romanians are the ones doing it,
put them on the prohibited country list. Let them stay over there," he said.
In March 2016, five individuals, three from Romania, one from the U.S., and one
from the U.K., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud by using cloned credit
cards in ATM machines in the Cayman Islands. In March 2015, three Romanian
nationals admitted similar offenses.
Editor's Note: Long known for off-shore bank accounts for U.S.
citizens looking to hide money, untouched and untaxed by the U.S. It
looks like they've had enough of this worldwide epidemic themselves.
caymancompass.com
2,000 MORE Department Store
Closings Needed?
Department Store Woes Show No Sign of Letting Up
At the beginning of each semester, Mark Cohen, a professor at Columbia Business
School, asks his about 200 students if they shop at department stores.
"Very few raise their hands," said Cohen, a 32-year retail industry veteran and
a former executive at retailers from former parent of Macy's to Sears.
"They look at me as if I'm nuts."
But it's a different story when it comes to his question about their
favorite store.
"I've had students this past year talking about their favorite store
being TJ Maxx or Marshalls or Nordstrom Rack or Amazon as opposed to
Bloomingdale's, Macy's or Nordstrom," Cohen, who is also the school's Director
of Retail Studies, said in an interview. "The outlook is grim for the
sector."
In all, the department store group is expected to see a comparable sales drop of
4.5%, one of the worst-performing retail segments, and lose money as a group,
according to Retail Metrics. Five of the nine department store companies it
tracks -- Penney, Sears as well as Saks and Lord & Taylor parent Hudson's Bay
Co. -- are all expected to be in the red.
Despite the struggles in the department store and apparel sectors, consumers are
still buying discretionary items, but just at fast fashion retailers or
off-price retailers including TJ Maxx and Marshalls parent TJX Cos., Burlington
Coat Factory's Burlington Stores and Ross Stores. In fact, all three retailers
are expected to post sales gain in contrast to declines at department stores and
both adult and teen apparel retailers, Retail Metrics data showed.
While there's not one magical formula to rescue the sector from its troubles,
one thing many in the industry agree on is that the store closings announced by
Macy's, Sears, Penney and others are not enough. As many as 2,000 stores
combined
may still need to be closed,
Cowen & Co. said in a study
released in April, adding Macy's and Penney may need to accelerate their
store-closing targets.
emarketer.com
Thursday, Macy's CEO Jeff
Gennette acknowledged Macy's might not be done closing stores in the near term
"I'm not going to say we're not going to close more stores," Gennette said. "We
do have to stabilize our brick-and-mortar business... That's where a majority of
our business is still done."
"The contraction puts more pressure on some of our mall-based stores, where we
have already seen a slowdown in traffic," Gennette said. "It will take some time
to see how [consolidations, closures, and bankruptcies] will impact us."
"We don't have our head in the sand, as for the significant challenges we face
in trying to get the business growing again," Gennette said. "These challenges
are secular and not cyclical."
aol.com
This Keeps Walmart Up At
Nights
Aldi raises stakes in U.S. price war with Wal-Mart
Already with 1,600 U.S. stores, Aldi's internal studies show its prices are 21
percent lower than its lowest-priced rivals, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N),
according to Chief Executive Jason Hart. He plans to maintain that gap going
forward.
Hart's plan calls for spending $1.6 billion to expand and remodel 1,300 U.S.
stores, and open 400 new stores mainly in Florida, Texas and on both coasts by
end of 2018. He also pledged Aldi will be willing to change prices more
frequently to respond to rivals if needed.
Editor's Note: And now with Lidl opening stores up and down the
East Coast, these to German retailers have the whole grocery industry worried
about pricing. reuters.com
ASIS
International Positive Policing Award presented to Brookhaven, GA Police
Department
 The Greater Atlanta ASIS Chapter of ASIS International presented the Brookhaven
Police Department with their "Positive Policing Award" during a Tuesday ceremony
in downtown Atlanta. On behalf of the Brookhaven Police, Officer Carlos Nino
accepted the award. The award was given to the department in response to the
dedication exhibited by their officers to the Brookhaven Community," says the
release. "Programs such as Shop with a Badge, Coffee with a Cop, and the
Hispanic Citizen's Police Academy highlight the department's commitment to
community outreach and public engagement."
brookhavenpost.co
Fog Machine Security?
Gun-store owners take drastic measures with robberies, burglaries up nationwide
An uptick in burglaries and robberies of gun dealers nationwide and in Texas has
led Houston store owners to take drastic, and often expensive, measures in
recent years to keep their merchandise out of the wrong hands. One shop has
even installed a high-tech fog machine to thwart burglars.
Almost a quarter of missing firearms in Texas turn up in Houston, prompting the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in April to dedicate an
expanding group of employees to focus solely on thefts of firearms from licensed
dealers in this region - the first of its kind nationwide. It aims to prevent
gun store burglaries and robberies and better track organized crews stealing the
weapons, Strong added.
Thefts at firearm dealers are up across the United States. In 2016, there were
58 burglaries and robberies of gun dealers in Texas, up 35 percent from 2015.
The burglaries and robberies last year resulted in 790 stolen firearms, also an
increase of 35 percent from 2015, according to ATF. Texas outstripped every
state during 2016 in the total number of stolen firearms reported to ATF.
In November 2015, Thom Bolsch opened his 33,000-square-foot Saddle River Range
Firearms and Archery, which includes retail and firing and archery ranges. About
5,000 square feet houses his guns for sale. Should a burglar break in, a
motion detector would trigger a dense fog to pour out of the ceiling. Within 45
seconds, it fills the portion of the store where the guns are sold "to the point
you can't even see your hand in front of your face," Bolsch said.
"The premise behind that is, if you can't see the guns, you can't steal the
guns, and you can't find your way out," he said.
houstonchronicle.com
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The Limited Stores Co.
Asks For More Time To File Ch. 11 Plan
Europe's
Fashion Brands Expand in U.S. Even as American Stores Close Doors
H&M, Zara,
Primark and Reiss push deeper into the American market
U.S. retail sales rose
0.4% in April
NRF: Retailers' Radio Ads Call on Congress to Preserve $40B Debit Card Reform
Law
Quarterly Same Store Sales
Results
Weis Markets Q1 comp's up 1.1%, sales
up 15.4%
Canada's Second Cup Q1 comp's down 0.2%,
Nordstrom Q1 comp's down 0.8%, net sales up 2.7%
HBC Q1 consolidated comp's down 2.9%
DSG (Hudson's Bay, Lord & Taylor & Home Outfitters) comp's
down 2.4%
Saks Fifth Ave. comp's down 4.8%
HBC Off Price (Saks OFF 5TH and GILT) comp's down 6.8%
HBC Europe (Galeria Kaufhof, Galeria INNO and Sportarena)
comp's flat
Albertson's Q4 comp's down 3.3%, full yr comp's down 0.4%, sales up 1.6%
J.C. Penney Q1 comp's down 3.5%, sales down 3.7%
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RFID Journal LIVE! News
Roundup
Tyco Retail Solutions Offers IoT-enabled RFID
Inventory-Visibility Systems
- Part 2
 Tyco
Retail Solutions showcased its portfolio of Internet of
Things-enabled RFID solutions, designed to provide real-time in-store visibility
and inventory insights. The company's RFID products are intended to help
retailers transform store operations with real-time visibility into available
inventory throughout the store and across the supply chain.
RFID Cycle Counting functionality allows rapid and frequent cycle-counting
activity and analytics to drive inventory accuracy and efficiencies through a
mobile sled with iOS and Android devices. Regular RFID cycle counts can help
retailers minimize out-of-stocks and overstock conditions, the company reports,
as well as maintain a consistent level of inventory accuracy of up to 95 to 99
percent.
Sensormatic Synergy Loss Prevention functionality connects multiple technologies
in a single storefront system. This intelligent, interconnected and modular
detection system helps companies manage store shrinkage. Synergy leverages RAIN
RFID technology to provide real-time shrinkage visibility, in order to capture
and link actionable data across key operational areas, thereby helping to
optimize store performance and profitability. rfidjournal.com
Many Retailers Unprepared for Cyberattacks
Only one-third of employees ready to handle threats
PCI compliance has been an increased focus for retailers in recent years, in an
era where cyberattacks are at an all-time high. But a new report from Bothell,
Wash.-based security awareness trainer MediaPro has found that despite this,
retail remains the most-attacked industry sector, with companies in this arena
suffering 43 percent of all phishing attacks during the last six months of 2016.
Just under one-third (29 percent) of retail employees actually are well prepared
to deal with cyber threats, while the rest exhibit behaviors that put their
organizations at risk of a privacy or security incident, according to "Beyond
PCI Compliance: 2017 Privacy and Security Awareness in Retail." This should
be cause for concern for grocers, as 84 percent of shoppers would change their
shopping habits if their favorite store were hit by a data breach, and nearly
half (49 percent) said they would be unlikely ot continue business with a
retailer if a breach of compromised personal information occurred.
Neglect for cybersecurity is displayed in numerous areas: 17 percent of retail
employees took risks when it came to storing sensitive company information, such
as inappropriately sending company data using their personal e-mail or saving it
via personal cloud-based storage. Further, 34 percent exhibited risky behavior
when asked about best practices for remote and mobile computing.
Malware also is a concern, as one-quarter (25 percent) of employees failed to
report a sluggish computer as a potential clue that their system might be
infected. Meanwhile, 12 percent couldn't identify the warning signs that malware
had infected their computer.
progressivegrocer.com
Trump's cybersecurity executive order met with mixed reviews
President Trump has signed a long-delayed executive order, which sets up a
number of cybersecurity reviews across the federal government, but does not make
any immediate sweeping changes to US policy.
The order instructs agency and department heads to use cybersecurity best
practices from the private sector to further secure their departmental systems,
ahead of a wider effort to modernize cybersecurity across government.
zdnet.com
Extreme Makeover: AI &
Network Cybersecurity
In the future, artificial intelligence will constantly adapt to the growing
attack surface. Today, we are still connecting the dots.
Security strategies need to undergo a radical evolution. Tomorrow's security
devices will need to see and interoperate with each other to recognize changes
in the networked environment, anticipate new risks and automatically update and
enforce policies. The devices must be able to monitor and share critical
information and synchronize responses to detected threats.
darkreading.com
SLocker Ransomware Variants
Surge
New variants of an Android ransomware family have surged over the past six
months to some 600 unique versions.
darkreading.com
RFID - The Game has Finally
Changed
PervasID launches a 'world first' near-100%-detection RFID ceiling tile reader
that delivers hugely reduced cost to deploy wide area, real time inventory
monitoring for retailers, healthcare and security. This game changing solution
delivers the world's first near-100 per cent accurate wide-area passive RFID
detection in real time. The result is that now retailers, hospitals and other
industries are able to see the stock that they have throughout a store or
building in real time.
prweb.com
Biometric Mobile Payments
Set To Explode In 2017
Mobile payments using biometrics to authenticate the user is forecasted to reach
close to $2 billion in 2017, up from $600 million last year, according to new
data from Juniper Research. At the same time that fingerprint payments are
expected to rise, so are payments via selfies.
With so much buzz surrounding biometric authentication, it should come as no
surprise that several companies looked to increase and improve the biometric
options they offered over the past few months. pymnts.com
Certain HP laptops are found recording users' keystrokes
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Park, FL: More Than $80K in Merchandise Seized in Warehouse Raid, 4 Detained in
Credit Card Fraud
Dozens of high-end appliances were seized from a warehouse in West Park
Wednesday after police uncovered an alleged scheme, in which merchandise was
fraudulently purchased and resold. Broward Sheriff's Office said more than
$80,000 in TV's, refrigerators and A/C units were seized in the raid. Detectives
said employees of Santiago Cargo Express used stolen credit card information
from across United States to purchase the merchandise online, totaling close to
$100,000. "They would have them shipped to wherever their respective address
was, whether it was in Wisconsin, California, etc., but then last minute they
would change the shipping address to the location where we're standing," said
Sgt. Christopher De Giovanni. Deputies and Home Depot investigators spent hours
Wednesday categorizing the appliances. It appears the bulk of the allegedly
stolen items are from Home Depot.
nbcmiami.com
Cape Coral, FL: Credit Card counterfeiter arrested
127 victims, $10,000 in gift cards seized
Counterfeit credit card making equipment and a thumb drive containing 127 credit
card numbers of unsuspecting victims led Lee County deputies to arrest a Cape
Coral man. Luis Rodriguez-Lorenzo, 29, was arrested and charged. A search of his
home, Deputies found 108 gift cards valued at around $10,000, 10 more
counterfeit credit cards, a counterfeit Ohio driver's license, and seven money
orders totaling just shy of $1,500.
nbc-2.com
 Willoughby,
OH: Police arrest 3 in credit card fraud; $3,800 in gift cards seized
Willoughby Police received a call from Papa John's that a man walked in and
requested to purchase all of their gift cards. After the restaurant denied the
purchase, officers located the man leaving the Pizza Hut. Officers began
searching all of the restaurants in the area and found that there were multiple
people attempting to purchase hundreds of dollars worth of gift cards with
fraudulent prepaid credit cards. Attempts and purchases were made at
Pizza Hut, IHOP, Burger King, Steak-n-Shake, Honey Baked Ham and Dairy Queen.
Police arrested three suspects (all from Detroit, MI) a forth suspect is still
at large.
news-herald.com
Gulf Breeze, FL: Gulf Breeze authorities are
searching for two women they say robbed a boutique Wednesday afternoon
According to the Gibson Girl store owner, two women walked into the store around
2:45 p.m. and stole $511 worth of merchandise.
weartv.com
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Shootings &
Deaths
 Houston,
TX: Man sentenced to life in 2014 Stafford Walmart shooting death
A man was sentenced Friday to life in prison after he was convicted of
murdering a man at a Stafford Walmart in December 2014. Officials said
Cristhian Cardozo, 35, was in his vehicle in the parking lot of the store
around 7 p.m. on Dec. 10 as his family, his wife, 9 yr old daughter and 14
yr old son, was shopping when two men approached his wife and children and
an argument ensued. The Cardozo family attempted to distance themselves from
the two men and called the father, who was still in the parking lot, to help
escort them to their vehicle. The two men and another individual approached
the family and attempted to attack Cardozo's 14-year-old son, officials
said. Witnesses reported that a fistfight began, Cardozo was knocked to the
ground, and Jason Lara, 18, pulled out a gun and fired four shots at
Cardozo, striking him three times. Lara was found guilty by a jury in Fort
Bend County and sentenced to life in prison.
click2houston.com
Sacramento, CA: Deputies investigate
double homicide outside Furniture store in broad daylight
Robberies
& Thefts
 Alpharetta,
GA: Thieves Failed to Shatter Apple store's $30K glass with sledgehammer
An attempted smash-and-grab was foiled when would-be thieves couldn't crack
a pricey glass at an Apple store at the Avalon in Alpharetta last week. Few
details were available about the suspects except that several men exited 2
cars about 2:30 a.m. on May 4. The men got away and made off with nothing,
but not before firing three .45-caliber silver bullets into the store's
$30,000 wall window panes. The store manager told police the panes were
custom made in Germany. No arrests have been made and the Police
investigation continues.
ajc.com
Charlotte, NC: Serial robbery suspect arrested;
tied to two CVS Armed Robberies
Police have arrested Darnell Simms, 30, in connection to four reported
robberies in the area. He was taken into custody on Thursday, May 11. The
charges are in connection with robberies that occurred at the CVS on Mallard
Creek Rd., Busters on Old Concord Rd, the CVS on N. Sharon Amity and the
Friendly Pharmacy on Little Rock Road.
fox46charlotte.com
San Diego, CA: Armed
Robber jumps counter at CVS to steal Cough syrup;
2nd time this week
A masked man hopped over the pharmacy counter at the CVS store on Mira Mesa
Boulevard near Camino Ruiz around 1:10 a.m. and grabbed eight to 10 bottles
of cough syrup, San Diego police Officer John Buttle said. He fled in a
waiting vehicle. Shortly after 1:30 a.m. Sunday, a similar robbery took
place at the CVS on University Avenue in North Park. In that case, the
suspect showed the handle of a gun to the store's employees before he fled,
according to San Diego police.
timesofsandiego.com
Charleston, SC: Man
arrested after restaurant Burglary sent to jail for 7th time in 2017
A 26-year-old man is in jail for the seventh time this year after a burglary
at the La Carreta Restaurant. It's also the second time he's been charged
for a burglary at the restaurant. Justin Sawyer was booked Wednesday. Sawyer
was out of jail after paying $10,000 in bond on a safecracking charge. Prior
to that, he was released from jail after paying $32,000 in bond on charges
of burglary, card fraud and violation of lottery regulations. His total bond
amount on two new charges of burglary second degree is $70,000. Sawyer had
12 prior arrests in South Carolina, charges included safecracking, receiving
stolen goods, lottery ticket fraud, burglary, credit card fraud, petty
larceny, shoplifting and trespassing.
abcnews4.com
Confessions of a Phoenix shoplifter: 'I
stole just to take away the anxiety'
Tacoma, WA: Thieves were able to cash
in stolen scratch tickets despite security; of $3,000 stolen, $750 were
redeemed
Piercing Pagoda in the Arizona Mills
Mall, Tempe, AZ reported a Grab & Run on 5/7, items valued at $679
Credit
Card Fraud
Grapevine, TX: More than
100 credit card numbers seized, 5 suspects arrested
Five people face an assortment of charges after police confiscated from
hotel rooms more than 100 stolen credit card numbers and equipment to make
fraudulent cards. Several grams of methamphetamine also were seized from a
hotel room where suspects had been staying. "None of the stolen credit card
numbers were local," according to Police news release. "All were linked to
businesses or people who live out of this area, most in other states."
star-telegram.com
St. Clair County, MI:
Sheriff's Office seeking to ID suspects in credit card theft ring; Pair
captured on video at Nursing Home
Two suspects dressed in hospital scrubs stole credit cards from the
employee' s office and quickly used them at several area retailers. Police
believe the suspects may also be involved in other similar thefts at nursing
homes in Okemos and Howell.
voicenews.com
Sauk County, WI: Credit card thieves
arrested; merchandise found in car |
"Staples
has been a customer of Vector Security Networks for over 15 years. The highest
honor we as a service provider can receive is recognition from our customer for
delivering solutions and adding value to their organization," said Michael T.
Grady, Executive Vice President, Vector Security Networks. "We are thankful for
our partnership with Staples and proud to be selected as their Supplier of the
Year."
