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Q2 & Half Year 'Retail Violent Deaths Report'
With a 15% increase in violent deaths over the first half of 2016, the most
alarming numbers are the sharp 32% increase in victims deaths and 35% decrease
in suspects deaths in the second quarter of this year, with 61 customers, 14
employees, and 4 law enforcement and LP associates' deaths.
The three trends that continue unchanged are the day of the week, with Saturday,
Sunday and Monday being the most violent and deadly days in retail, and males
being predominately shot and killed being the most prevalent.
Interesting as well, is the top five states, that almost line up with ORC
activity, with California, Florida, Texas, and Georgia leading the way and
Tennessee and Arkansas tying for bottom.
It's probably the most difficult piece to report on here at the Daily, as we
continue to refine and develop our reporting methods.
Read full report here
Armed Robberies - A Nationwide Epidemic
Cartels Dumping Cheap Meth & Heroin on America's Streets
Armed and Dangerous: Can we stem the onslaught of
armed robbery?
Albuquerque is in the throes of an armed robbery epidemic
Mayor Berry and District Attorney Raúl Torrez, together with business leaders,
are working on strategies that range from making businesses and their employees
less vulnerable to overhauling how police and prosecutors do their jobs.
One of those strategies is "target hardening." In some instances, they have
installed timed safes so employees can't open them when robbers hit. They have
spent thousands of dollars installing digital cameras and have links to APD's
Real Time Crime Center in case of a robbery.
Armed robberies are being committed more than five times a day in the
city, a rate that equals the high water mark of 1996.
Terri Cole, president and CEO of the Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce,
said the "business community is very worried" about the sharp increase in armed
robberies. "We are aggressively working with the police department, the mayor
and district attorney to create a system that takes these high risk repeat
offenders off the streets."
Many attribute the rapid rise in armed robberies, from a low of 940 in
2010 to almost 2,000 in 2016, to a number of factors, including cheap and
widely available methamphetamine and heroin from Mexico and access to cheap
firearms on the street. Changes in court procedures to speed up trials,
clear case backlogs and help empty an overcrowded jail are also considered
factors by police and prosecutors.
Working on a number of initiatives: A Crime Strategy Unit that would use
police and court computer systems to help identify high risk and low risk
offenders when they are arrested, allowing prosecutors to direct resources at
the higher-risk criminals.
The Security Camera Analytic Network, a voluntary registry of commercial
and home security camera systems that would let police and prosecutors know if
there is potential video of crime scenes or near crime scenes.
ABQ i-team, which has used a Bloomberg Philanthropies Grant to develop
in-depth information on crime in the city to let APD assign officers based
on the frequency of crime.
Improving the flow of criminal case information from APD to the District
Attorney's Office in order to meet tighter timelines for turning over evidence
to defense attorneys in criminal cases.
The Real Time Crime Center will search the network as calls for service
come in and advise officers in the field when cameras are near the scene of the
crime. Officers will be able to see the security camera map along with contact
information for the system owners.
APD's Real Time Crime Center also has a program that allows businesses to tie
their security cameras into APD's center and allows APD to immediately view
and monitor the cameras when an alarm is activated.
In the last few months, APD and federal agencies formed ALeRT (Analysis Led e
Recidivism Team) that meets weekly to target habitual offenders, try to get
charges filed against them in federal court and make sure prosecutors have all
the possible information to give to judges in state court cases.
The FBI, DEA and ATF all participate.
The FBI has been adopting APD investigations into serial armed robbers,
because many of the chain restaurants and stores targeted by armed robbers are
involved in interstate commerce.
Editor's Note: You can magnify this story to virtually every major city
in the U.S.
abqjournal.com
CEO's Taking A Stand & Protestors Across
America
Protesters Flood Streets, and Trump Offers a
Measure of Praise
BOSTON - Tens of thousands of demonstrators, emboldened and unnerved by
the eruption of fatal violence in Virginia last weekend, surged into the
nation's streets and parks on Saturday to denounce racism, white supremacy and
Nazism.
Demonstrations were boisterous but broadly peaceful, even as tension and worry
coursed through protests from Boston Common, the nation's oldest public
park, to Hot Springs, Ark., and to the bridges that cross the Willamette
River in Portland, Ore. Other rallies played out in Atlanta, Dallas, Houston,
Memphis and New Orleans, among other cities.
The demonstrations - which drew 40,000 people in Boston alone, according
to police estimates - came one week after a 32-year-old woman died amid clashes
between white nationalists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., and
they unfolded as the nation was again confronting questions about race, violence
and the standing of Confederate symbols.
nytimes.com
The Times They are a Changing
The Moral Voice of Corporate America
The nation has split into political tribes. The culture wars are back, waged
over transgender rights and immigration. White nationalists are on the march.
Amid this turbulence, a surprising group of Americans is testing its moral
voice more forcefully than ever: C.E.O.s.
A chorus of business leaders rose up this past week to condemn hate groups and
espouse tolerance and inclusion. And as lawmakers in Texas tried to restrict the
rights of transgender people to use public bathrooms, corporate executives
joined activists to kill the bill.
These and other actions are part of a broad recasting of the voice of business
in the nation's political and social dialogue, a transformation that has gained
momentum in recent years as the country has engaged in fraught debates over
everything from climate change to health care.
Walmart's chief executive, Doug McMillon, criticized Mr. Trump by name for
his handling of the violence in Charlottesville, and called for healing.
The forthright engagement of these and other executives with one of the most
charged political issues in years - the swelling confidence of a torch-bearing,
swastika-saluting, whites-first movement - is "a seminal moment in the history
of business in America," "In this maelstrom, the most clarifying voice has been
the voice of business," he said. "These C.E.O.s have taken the risk to speak
truth to power."
They also faced notable and new kinds of pressure from within - from employees
who expect or encourage their company to stake out positions on numerous
controversial social or economic causes, and from board members concerned with
reputational issues. In the past week, business leaders have responded with
all-staff memos and town-hall meetings.
In short, while companies are naturally designed to be moneymaking enterprises,
they are adapting to meet new social and political expectations in sometimes
startling ways.
"Not every business decision is an economic one," said Howard Schultz, the
chairman of Starbucks, who was one of the country's first company leaders to
proactively address social issues. "The reason people are speaking up is that we
are fighting for what we love and believe in, and that is the idealism and the
aspiration of America, the promise of America, the America that we all know and
hold so true."
nytimes.com
What's this mean to Retailers?
While this weekend's protestors were peaceful and tightly controlled by law
enforcement, the retail industry still must keep a watchful eye on any future
demonstrations with the focus obviously being on estimated sizes and permitted
hours and paths of the groups. With the key being collaborating with local law
enforcement and proactively, if possible, finding out when the permits are
granted and obtaining a copy of it. Obviously with the stores along the path
falling into the emergency preparedness protocols.
How a Charlottesville Association Responded to
the Alt-Right March
In advance of last weekend's "Unite the Right" rally, which ultimately turned
violent, the Downtown Business Association of Charlottesville helped businesses
stay open and connected.
Jane Fenton, DBAC chairperson, knew something big would be coming to the
Virginia college town last weekend. The frustrating part was not knowing exactly
what, or how big it would become.
DBAC took its own initiative, joining a group of business that
delivered a letter to the Charlottesville police chief asking for strong
security measures that would allow businesses to remain open. It would also mean
that rally attendees will find it difficult to find a place to use a toilet,
cool down, or buy food or water."
A poster displayed on many businesses in Charlottesville this weekend.
Fenton also directed DBAC members to an email thread, and later a Slack
discussion, where local businesses coordinated what services they would provide
and whether they would remain open. Another group, Unity C'ville,
helped produce and distribute posters that let businesses announce their
disapproval of the alt-right protesters, regardless of whether their doors were
closed or open.
As a result, Fenton says, 60 of 80 stores affiliated with the DBAC stayed open
on August 12. About half of those closed early, either by plan or in response to
the incident in which one far-right protester drove into a crowd of anti-racism
marchers, killing a woman. Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency in
the city shortly after the incident.
Throughout last weekend, Fenton maintained a list of what business owners were
doing. She shared that information with authorities and others who needed a
clearer picture of the situation downtown-or who simply wanted to know where the
available safe havens were that day.
associationsnow.com
Mastermind of Multi-State Lottery Rigging Scheme
Information Security Director Facing 25 Yrs
Tipton, 54, arrested in 2015, scheduled for sentencing Tuesday
Reported on the
Daily June 13th the former Iowa lottery information security director was
found guilty July 2015 of rigging a computerized Hot Lotto game so he could win
a $14 million jackpot then trying to get acquaintances to cash the prize for him
without revealing his identity.
"The depth of his deceit is dumbfounding," Assistant Iowa Attorney General Rob
Sand said in court filings seeking a 25-year prison term for Tipton when he is
sentenced Tuesday in Des Moines. "Such crimes cannot be answered without a
prison sentence."
Tipton admitted to masterminding the lottery rigging scheme as part of a plea
deal reached with Sand to resolve charges in all states from which he had won
jackpots. Tipton agreed to detail for authorities how he altered the computers,
reveal all the games he had fixed and who helped him.
Tipton would go on to fix six more lottery games across five states, netting
more than $2 million for himself.
Prosecutors said Eddie Tipton inserted a stealth program into the computer that
randomly picked the numbers then deleted it so it could not be detected.
The agreement shows Tipton pled guilty to three felony charges in Iowa and
Wisconsin for his central role in a six-year scheme that prosecutors say allowed
him, brother Tommy Tipton and a close friend to cash in on $3M in lottery
drawings in Wisconsin, Kansas, Oklahoma and Colorado.
nypost.com
d-ddaily.com
Oregon: State wants power to order Emotional
Fitness Exams for Armed Guards
The state wants the power to order medical exams for armed security guards who
are suspected of having emotional problems that endanger public safety.
Under a proposed rule, the Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and
Training would be able to act if it received information that a private security
officer poses that serious of a risk. The department adopted the rule
temporarily on June 23 and is looking to make it permanent.
The change stops short of allowing regulators to immediately disarm guards or to
suspend their certifications. The rule applies only to armed security guards and
private security firearms instructors, and not to other public safety workers
subject to state licensing, such as police officers and corrections officers.
oregonlive.com
Cost of eclipse fever for workplaces? Could be
$694M
Today was eclipse day and as the clock ticks toward 11:54 a.m. and workers
across Chicago abandon their desks to glimpse, what for many will be a
once-in-a-lifetime astronomical phenomenon. "It's pretty hard to imagine that
every single person in the office is not going to stream out to take part in
this."
Eclipse fever could cost employers $694 million nationwide from lost
productivity, according to a Challenger calculation. That estimate assumes
everyone working during the eclipse takes 20 minutes off to watch, and doesn't
account for the time spent debriefing with colleagues after.
Some employers are holding space-themed watch parties to celebrate, using the
opportunity for employee bonding and to show off how cool it is to have a
rooftop deck. Keeping employees from burning their retinas should be top of
mind for employers during eclipse celebrations, employment attorneys advise.
chicagotribune.com
Walmart Wants to Take on Amazon With Flying
Warehouses
The world's largest retailer has applied for a U.S. patent for a floating
warehouse that could make deliveries via drones, which would bring products from
the aircraft down to shoppers' homes. The blimp-style machine would fly at
heights between 500 feet and 1,000 feet (as much as 305 meters), contain
multiple launching bays, and be operated autonomously or by a remote human
pilot. Amazon was granted a patent for a similar vessel in April 2016.
fortune.com
Office Depot & Office Max - Director, Retail Loss
Prevention and Safety,
Boca Raton, FL
The Director, Retail Loss Prevention and Safety is responsible for developing
and directing pro-active shrink reduction initiatives, asset protection
strategies and accident prevention practices for all Retail Stores. This
position works collaboratively with all operations partners to execute agreed
upon strategies through oversight of operational audits, integrity/dishonesty
investigations, physical security reviews, and training/awareness programs. This
position partners with human resources, retail operations and corporate support
teams in analyzing key metrics to identify emerging trends and mitigate risks in
the retail business segment.
officedepot.com
The company had 2016 annual sales of approximately $11 billion, employed
approximately 38,000 associates, and served consumers and businesses in North
America and abroad with approximately 1,400 retail stores, award-winning
e-commerce sites and a dedicated business-to-business sales organization with a
global network of wholly owned operations, franchisees, licensees and alliance
partners. The company operates under several banner brands including Office
Depot, OfficeMax and Grand & Toy. The company's portfolio of exclusive product
brands include TUL, Foray, Brenton Studio, Ativa, WorkPro, Realspace and
Highmark.
officedepot.com
One of the biggest Jobs in the Solution Provider
World
TYCO RETAIL SOLUTIONS
General Manager North America, Retail Loss Prevention Johnson Controls,
Chicago,
IL
Location Flexible Major City (Atlanta, Chicago, Boca Raton, Dallas etc)
Reporting to the VP & GM Global Loss Prevention, Tyco Retail Solutions
the North America leader requires a strategic perspective and capabilities
around articulating and driving the vision and value proposition for the $400
million NA team.
The incumbent will provide leadership to position the Tyco Retails Solution NA
Loss Prevention business at forefront of the industry; focusing on sales and
profitability, aligned with customer service, customer and employee engagement.
The Leader will have responsibility for the development and execution of
scalable, go-to-market strategies to acquire, retain and grow customers. This
leader will focus on Business Development efforts setting both short-term and
long-term activities supporting financial goals, and achieving those goals. P&L
ownership for North America, inclusive of accurate forecasting, operational
excellence efficiencies, minimizing expenses and maximizing profitability.
Core to the role is the ability to capture the voice of the customer to feed
potential product innovations that will lead to enhanced customer satisfaction
and greater market share. Must have demonstrated leadership experience driving
transformation within an industry and managing change across a diverse employee
population. This role will require the ability to navigate and execute with
excellence in a highly matrixed organization with the capabilities to identify,
build and cultivate working relationships across functions and teams.
jobs.net
Head of Risk Assessment - Ops Risk & Compliance
Mgr 5 for Wells Fargo & Company
Location Minneapolis, Minnesota, San Francisco, California, Charlotte, North
Carolina
Wells Fargo & Company is a diversified, community-based financial services
company with $1.9 trillion in assets. Founded in 1852, Wells Fargo provides
banking, insurance, investments, mortgage, and consumer and commercial financial
services through more than 8,600 locations, 13,000 ATMs, online (wellsfargo.com),
and mobile devices.
Headquartered in San Francisco, but we're decentralized so every local Wells
Fargo location is a headquarters for satisfying our customers' financial needs
and helping them succeed financially. We do business with 70 million customers
and one in three U.S. households. Wells Fargo has approximately 269,000 team
members in 36 countries and territories across our more than 90 businesses.
Corporate Risk helps all Wells Fargo businesses identify and manage risk. The
team focuses on several key risk areas including credit risk, operational risk,
market risk, strategic risk, and compliance risk. Corporate Risk strives to
ensure that all Wells Fargo corporate functions and lines of business soundly
manage risk, comply with applicable laws and regulations, and offer products and
services that meet the needs of our customers.
The Head of Risk Assessment has overall accountability for leading the risk
assessment activities within the Conduct Management Office.
Editor's Note: Not surprising to see this job opening.
wellsfargojobs.com
An Employee Failed a Drug Test. Now What?
Sunoco to lay off 94 after $3.3B deal with
7-Eleven
Dollar General opens its 14,000th store
Quarterly Same Store Sales Results
Stein Mart Q2 comp's down 5%, sales down 2.7%
Last week's #1 article --
It's Official Sycamore to sell Staples U.S. &
Canadian retail businesses
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Cybersecurity - NIST Special Report Outlining
Security & Privacy Controls
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, the federal agency
responsible for setting numerous standards including for cybersecurity, issued a
draft revision of a special report outlining security and privacy controls for
information systems. The report provides a catalog of operational protocols
intended to protect all types of computer platforms including general purpose
computing systems and internet of things devices from hostile attacks, natural
disasters, human errors and privacy risks. The draft revision is open for public
comment through Sept. 12.
chainstoreage.com
Why Your Face Will Soon Be the Key to All Your
Devices
Better-than-ever face-recognition tech means you
will be able to forget your passwords-with more security
Using our faces to unlock things could soon become routine, rather than the
purview of spies and superheroes.
Qualcomm Inc., an industry leader in mobile device chips, recently introduced
its Spectra imaging system, which can extract depth information from objects
including faces.
This technology is different from, but related to, the facial recognition
increasingly built into security cameras around the world, which
cross-references pictures of your face against databases of millions. That tech
is growing in capability and in use-especially in China, where its applications
range from surveillance to payments.
"The interesting thing about face recognition is that it has the ability to be
much more ubiquitous than fingerprint scanning because camera sensors are that
much easier to deploy," Mr. Pritikin says. "I think it's just a matter of time
before our daily routine will reflect a number of seamless biometric
authentications."
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about all this facial recognition is how
mundane it has the potential to become, and fast. As a security measure that
requires us only to look at our device, it's easily taken for granted.
wsj.com
Meijer to restructure I.T. department amid
changing retail landscape
Amid intense competition in the retail grocery sector, Meijer Inc. will
trim and restructure its information technology services (ITS) staff in the
coming months.
While declining to discuss specific numbers, a senior spokesperson for the
Walker-based superstore retailer confirmed that Meijer announced changes last
month within its ITS workforce and that some staffers had been or would be
"displaced."
Guglielmi declined to discuss Meijer's strategy or any specific numbers
regarding the restructuring of the department. However, a source directly
familiar with Meijer's I.T. department said the changes affected about 10
percent of staff.
The source - who talked to MiBiz on the condition of anonymity because the
person was not authorized to speak publicly - said the company would lay off 46
employees and that another 25 would have their employment transferred to
CapGemini.
mibiz.com
Liquor Chain Wants 5th Circ. To Revive Data
Breach Coverage Suit
A Texas liquor store chain urged the Fifth Circuit on Friday to reverse the
lower court ruling that found Hanover Insurance was not obligated to pay the
costs of a lawsuit seeking recovery of $4 million charged by the chain's credit
card processor following two data breaches, arguing the policy exclusions
were wrongly interpreted.
Spec's Family Partners Ltd. told the panel that the lower court had wrongly
interpreted its contract with Hanover Insurance Co. by finding that a section of
the policy meant that no coverage was owed to Spec's for the costs of a 2014
suit against payment processor FirstData Merchant Services Corp. This exclusion
allows for denial of coverage when the claim arises from an "actual or alleged
liability under a written or oral contract or agreement."
Spec's, which has roughly 160 locations in Texas,
sued Hanover in February 2016 after the insurer had refused to pay the
costs of Spec's 2014 Tennessee lawsuit against FirstData Merchant Services. The
retailer alleged that Hanover had agreed to cover defense costs after
FirstData withheld $4.2 million in receipts to help cover nearly $10 million in
losses stemming from Spec's data breaches in 2012 and 2014.
law360.com
10% of Data Breaches By Ex-Employees
50% of Ex-Employees Can Still Access Corporate Apps
Businesses drive the risk for data breaches when they fail to terminate
employees' access to corporate apps after they leave.
Researchers at identity management firm OneLogin polled 500 IT decision makers
to learn about how they provision and deprovision, or terminate, staff login
information in-house. Results indicate most aren't doing enough to protect
against the threat of ex-employees.
Twenty percent of respondents report their failure to deprovision employees from
corporate applications has contributed to a data breach at their organization.
Of those, 47% say more than 10% of all data breaches have been the result of
ex-employees.
Nearly half of respondents are aware of former employees who can still access
enterprise applications following their departure. Half of ex-employees'
accounts remain active for longer than a day after they leave. One-quarter of
respondents take longer than one week to deprovision former employees, and
one-quarter don't know how long accounts remain active after workers leave.
The threat of ex-employees has grown as companies adopt third-party apps for
various processes. "There's this proliferation of applications," Hoyos
continues. "Because of that, the risk has increased exponentially."
The amount of time it takes to deprovision an employee depends on how many
applications they used and how long they've been gone from the business, says
Hoyos. Terminating someone can take minutes or hours, depending on the
application. Admins also have to think about how different tools integrate with
one another.
Businesses are still grappling with how to tackle the insider threat. Sixteen
percent of respondents in the
Dark Reading Strategic Security Survey said preventing data theft by
employees was one of their greatest IT security challenges.
Verizon's Data Breach Investigations Report found in 60% of cases involving
insider and privilege misuse, insiders leave with data in the hope of
converting it into cash. Sometimes it's unsanctioned snooping (17%) or
taking data to a new employer to start a rival company.
darkreading.com
Director of Information Security Hallmark Cards
Company Location Kansas City, Missouri
The Director of Information Security reports to the Vice President of
Information Security and is responsible for working within Hallmark
implementing and managing security policies, processes, and standards to
establish acceptable levels of risk, and proactively reduce the potential for
security incidents. The Director of Information Security works closely
with application and infrastructure partners to integrate security controls
within applications and architectures. The Director leads a team of
architects, engineers, and analysts who are responsible for conducting security
assessments, implementing and managing security controls, and supporting the day
to day information security operations for Hallmark's global businesses.
Hallmark has a diverse
portfolio of six businesses that offer a wide range of products distributed
in more than 100 countries and 100,000 rooftops worldwide. These include top
mass retailers and more than 2,000 company and independently owned
Hallmark Gold Crown stores.
hallmark.com
Does Your Breach Incident Response Plan Have
Holes?
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Shootings &
Death
Dallas, TX: Man robbed and fatally shot outside
7-Eleven
Officers found 35-year-old Jose Sanchez shot in the head next to a gas pump.
Witnesses said two or three teenagers approached Sanchez as he was pumping gas,
tried to rob him and ran toward a nearby apartment complex after the shooting.
fox4news.com
 Miami-Dade County, FL: No Active Shooter, but video shows chaos inside Dolphin Mall as
shoppers run for exits
Video shows chaos inside Dolphin Mall as shopper run for exits after reports of
an active shooter on Aug. 19, 2017. Their fears were genuine. The shooting and
the gunman weren't. About two hours after the first report of gunfire inside the
Dolphin Mall at 9:07 p.m., Sweetwater Mayor Orlando Lopez told reporters that
police had declared the story the mother of all false alarms. "Nothing that
these people are saying is the truth," said Lopez, in whose tiny West Miami-Dade
city the mall is located. "There's no attacker here, much less any wounded."
miamiherald.com
Henderson, NC: Food Lion employee shot outside
store in domestic-violence incident
A Food Lion employee who had just stepped outside for her break was shot
Saturday, in what appears to be a domestic violence situation. City officials
said the "young lady" was sitting on a bench near the store's entrance when "her
boyfriend approached and shot her." Police have obtained a warrant for Marcus
Tyrell Hargrove, 23, he is considered armed and dangerous.
myfox8.com
Update: Colorado Springs, CO: Authorities
identify Police Officer in Walmart shoplifting shooting
Authorities have identified the Colorado Springs Police officer who shot and
killed a suspected shoplifter as a nine-year veteran of the force. Officer
Anthony Voltz's name was released Friday. Voltz is on paid leave while the El
Paso County Sheriff's Department investigates. Authorities say Voltz was
responding to a report of shoplifting at a Walmart on Monday when the suspect
fled, brandishing a weapon. Investigators say the weapon was a pellet pistol
that was a close replica of a firearm.
denverpost.com
Fairchance, PA: Pennsylvania State Troopers wounded in
robbery investigation; suspect killed
Robberies &
Thefts
Centereach, NY: Store Manager Grabs Shotgun From Robber
Ronald J. Kelly was charged with robbery and possession of a controlled
substance. Kelly is accused of pointing a shotgun at the manager and five
employees of Island Thrift. He demanded money, police said. The store manager, a
woman, grabbed the shotgun. Two employees joined the struggle, secured the
weapon and wrestled Kelly to the ground. They held him down until police
arrived.
nbcnewyork.com
Houston, TX: Two H.E.B store Robberies end with Police
Chase
A tow truck driver is being credited with tackling one of four robbers who held
up a grocery store pharmacy in southwest Houston early Monday. Investigators say
four men targeted the H-E-B on Buffalo Speedway and Bissonnet around 3 Monday
morning.
abc13.com
Livonia, LA: Overnight crime spree ends with
hostage situation
According to the Livonia Police Department, the suspect kidnapped a victim in
St. Landry Parish and forced them to drive him to Livonia. Once in Livonia,
Mauldwin attempted an armed robbery at a local convenience store. The suspect
allegedly shot at a store clerk and police officers that were responding to the
scene. The driver of the vehicle fled as Mauldwin got out of the car. He then
allegedly fled to a nearby home, where he forcefully entered and held the
residents hostage.
wbrz.com
Ort Orchard, WA: Local Restaurant Waitress charged with
$30,000 cash theft; caught with new register software
Marion County, FL: Couple responsible for 18 Armed
Robberies since January in Levy and Marion Counties
Suffolk County, NY: Heroin Addict arrested in 4 Armed
Robberies; Dunkin Donuts, 7-Eleven, Rite Aid and Burger King
Fire & Arson
Somerset, KY: Three charged in Kroger Arson
Two adults and a juvenile have reportedly been arrested in connect with the
Wednesday night fire at the Kroger Marketplace store on South U.S. 27. Customers
evacuated the building, and the store had to close until the next day. The
store's sprinkler system activated and contained the fire to the one aisle. He
said there was no damage to the building, but said the store suffered a
significant loss of merchandise due to smoke and water damage. No reported
injuries. somerset-kentucky.com
Surgut, Russia: Terrorist worked as guard in
supermarket
Islamic State claims responsibility
Artur Gadzhiev tried to set fire to the Severny shopping center, then he began
to attack the visitors with an ax and a knife, and later, after running outside,
he stabbed random people in the street. Four out of the eight wounded are
severely injured. Islamic State assumes responsibility for massacre in Surgut.
crimerussia.com
Counterfeit
Two Chinese shop owners arrested for knock-off shoes;
160,000 pairs of counterfeit shoes bearing the fake logos of Nike, Converse and
Adidas
Credit Card
Fraud
Hallandale Beach, FL: City Commissioner says she's victim
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