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2018 GLPS - Group LP Selfies
Your Team - Your Pride - Our Industry
Building Industry Pride - One Team Selfie at a Time
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Randy Council, Charles Cherry, Deana McLees-Bailey, Michael Bouley, Mike
DiDomenico, Katie Wade, Mark Elliott, Byron Gibson, Deanna Bonachea, Dave Harben,
Dwayne Bryant, Christie Delaney, Jeff Aldinger, Tim Krueger, Jeff Turk, Michael
Peteja, David Powers, Jeff Gilkey, Jeff Nicholson, Fred Rodriguez, Matt Francis,
Albert Metuge, Josh Machtinger, Scott Pethuyne, Gary Watson, Michelle Benjamin,
Eric Brill, Jim Kuenzli, Kimber Johnson, Chris Gomez, Mark King, Shawn Dempsey
Not Pictured: Kerry Wick & George Lembessis
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Gatekeeper Systems Purchek Honored with 2018 PERIFEM Award in
Security
 Gatekeeper
Systems Purchek was honored with the 2018 PERIFEM Award in Security and
Safety. PERIFEM is a French non-profit who seeks to represent and defend the Retail
sector. Its members make up three-quarters of French food retailers, most
specialized retailers, and retail property companies like Unibail and Rodamco-Westfield.
PERIFEM members represent 200 billion Euros in sales, 30,000 locations and 210
million square feet of retail space.
PERIFEM is a leading institution for European retailers with representation in
forty committees across Europe and influence over legislation and standards
across the EU. PERIFEM connects retailers with over 150 technical experts, 15
professional organizations and 10 ministries, with the goal of gathering and
sharing best practices, identifying innovations, presenting market research and
establishing legislation.
gatekeepersystems.blog
FBI Releases 2017 Crime Data
2017 NIBRS Crime Data Released
Law Enforcement Continuing Transition to More Detailed Reporting System
1st Time FBI Shows Retail Robbery Spike at C-Stores, Gas Stations & Restaurants
 The FBI released information today on more than 6 million criminal offenses
submitted to its National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) last year, as
law enforcement nationwide continues transitioning to the more informative crime
reporting system.
In 2017, 6,998 law enforcement agencies reported data to NIBRS. About 42 percent
of law enforcement agencies who participate in the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)
Program are now submitting their crime data to NIBRS, with the goal of
completing the transition to NIBRS by 2021.
 Highlights from NIBRS,
2017 include:
● Data from 2017 contained information on about 5.4 million incidents with
6,290,042 criminal offenses.
● Of the reported offenses, 61 percent were crimes against property, 23
percent were crimes against persons, and 16 percent were crimes against society
(such as animal cruelty).
More NIBRS data is available in the
NIBRS interactive map
and in the
Crime Data
Explorer (CDE) tool. The CDE is an interactive tool that allows the
public to more easily use and understand crime data through a variety of
interactive features, such as tailored reports and the ability to build web
applications.
To learn more about the FBI's transition to NIBRS, visit
fbi.gov/nibrs.
Full report: NIBRS, 2017
fbi.gov
2018 Security 500 - Retail Sector Report
Finance is Leading the Way & Spending is Up
Security Magazine publishes this report annually and while their focus is more
overall security with a heavy emphasis on cyber, they do touch the retail sector.
Interestingly enough, their reporting structure results are, in fact, very close to
what we surveyed for years at Downing & Downing. With finance managing the
functions in 41% of the retailers surveyed and operations only managing in 31%.
However, our findings showed a heavier operations reporting structure leaning
towards the high 40's, and much lighter Legal and Risk reporting structure in
the single digits. With specialty stores reporting to operations, big box
retailers leaning more towards finance and grocery reporting to legal.
The
41% increased in spending number is considerable and certainly
reflects both the increasing technology investments and the increase in
violence.
securitymagazine.com
Neiman Marcus Accused Of Funneling $1B To LBO Sponsors
Neiman Marcus Moves $1B Away From Creditors
Neiman Marcus Group Inc. was hit with a suit in Texas state court Monday
alleging the company orchestrated a plot to loot its own luxury department store
and online retailer of about $1 billion and transfer the cash to indirect owners
Ares Management LP and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. The complaint
alleges Neiman Marcus Ltd. LLC undertook the scheme to place assets beyond the
reach of the creditors to hinder and delay creditor recovery.
law360.com
Sporting Goods Industry Under the Magnifying
Glass
Under Armour Ousts Two Executives After Review of Expenses
Company questioned practices in sports-marketing unit, spending by longtime
associates of CEO Kevin Plank
Under Armour ousted two sports-marketing executives who were longtime associates
of CEO Kevin Plank, according to people familiar with the matter, after the
apparel brand conducted an internal review of their department's spending.
Ryan Kuehl, a former player in the National Football League, and senior vice
president of global sports marketing, and Walker Jones, senior director of
sports marketing, were both removed from their roles last week, the people said.
Employees were informed of their departure on Thursday, but no reasons were
given for the abrupt changes, employees said.
Behind closed doors, the company's management questioned the way the two men had
been running the sports-marketing department and whether some of their spending
was appropriate, some of the people said. The funds at issue included events,
gifts to athletes and nights out, the people said, and some were costs that were
approved in previous years.
Both men first joined the Baltimore company years ago and were part of Mr.
Plank's inner circle, helping to recruit athletes to endorse products, said
current and former employees. Mr. Plank started the business in 1996 with a
sweat-wicking shirt for football players and built it into a global brand with
$5 billion in annual sales.
The company has for years given a long leash to the sports-marketing department,
with Mr. Plank himself holding lavish corporate events for athletes and VIP
guests and often telling executives to give in to the demands of athletes, even
those who are no longer useful to the company, these people said.
The sports-marketing staff were among the employees who sometimes attended strip
clubs with athletes and expensed the visits to the company, the people said.
Under Armour stopped the practice in February, The Wall Street Journal reported
last month.
wsj.com
Fashion retailer Cato agrees to $3.5M settlement over discrimination claims
Charlotte-based women's fashion retailer Cato Corporation has agreed to a $3.5
million settlement with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the
agency said Monday, after a "nationwide, systemic investigation" uncovered
discrimination against pregnant employees and workers with disabilities.
Cato denied reasonable accommodations for those employees and made certain
workers take unpaid leaves of absence and/or terminated them because of their
disabilities, the EEOC said in announcing results of a joint investigation by
the agency's Chicago and Philadelphia offices.
citynews.com
JCI to sell Power Solutions business for $13.2 billion
Johnson Controls International announced a definitive agreement to sell its
Power Solutions business to Brookfield Business Partners L.P. in a cash
transaction valued at $13.2 billion. "With this transaction, Johnson Controls
becomes a pure-play building technologies and solutions provider that is better
positioned to lead the integration and evolution of the connected building and
to capture strategic opportunities in the HVAC industry," JCI chairman and chief
executive officer George Oliver said.
securitysystemsnews.com
Dumac Business Systems acquires Total Retail Solutions
DeWitt-based Dumac Business Systems Inc. has acquired Total Retail Solutions, a
provider of point-of-sale and loss prevention solutions to independent grocers.
TRS supports approximately 400 supermarkets in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi
and Tennessee. Dumac said all TRS customers and most of its employees will
transition to Dumac.
syracuse.com
Detroit Lakes, MN: Apparel Store Puts Shoplifters to Work to Pay Off Their
Crimes
A Minnesota lakes country apparel wholesaler has taken a different approach to
punish people who shoplift from their store. Rather than the usual route of
catching the culprits and pressing charges, Detroit Lakes-based Lakeshirts
let a few teens who were caught stealing a good amount of merchandise this
summer work off their crimes.
"It was enough to prosecute ... we could have done that, but we chose not to,"
said Frankie Hutchinson who has been managing the Lakeshirts store since last
spring. She said they haven't had a lot of shoplifting incidents, but the ones
she has caught have mostly involved minors, and the company has decided to go
this route as punishment to teach a lesson without putting permanent marks on
young kids' records.
Hutchinson said that across the company, they choose to take similar approaches
to these kinds of situations. They'd rather work with shoplifters, disgruntled
employees, etc. than make situations worse by burning bridges.
grandforksherald.com
Turning Point for China's Stance on Counterfeit
Luxury Goods
New Laws & Training 100,000 Authenticators Across the Country
The Chinese government is finally ready to crack down on the country's black and
grey luxury market and better regulate its booming e-commerce sector.
According to US Chamber of Commerce estimates, Greater China is the source of
86 percent of the world's counterfeit goods, a portion valued at a staggering
$397 billion.
Even e-commerce giant Alibaba, itself a major target of anti-counterfeit critics
worldwide, has called on the Chinese government to do more to fix its
"ambiguous" efforts.
Prompted perhaps by these attacks on its record as well as the prospect of
driving more tax revenue by encouraging legitimate luxury spending in China, the
government finally seems to have made its anti-counterfeiting drive a focus of
more attention and energy.
At the start of this year, the government's Ministry of Industry and Information
Technology established the China Luxury Authentication Centre, a sub-department
tasked with training a government-licenced army of luxury authenticators to
battle the increasingly high-quality fakes being manufactured and sold in the
Middle Kingdom.
The Chinese government plans to implement the country's most comprehensive
e-commerce regulation legislation to date on January 1, 2019. businessoffashion.com
Japan: AI technology helps arrest shoplifter by studying suspicious movements
Analysis of security camera footage using artificial intelligence technology has
helped arrest a shoplifter at a convenience store in Japan. Police arrested an
80-year-old man for stealing a hat at a convenience store in Yokohama last week.
The store had suffered about 9,000 dollars in losses from shoplifting in the
past 6 months.
The store worked with a Tokyo-based image analysis company to study 3,000 hours
of images captured on 6 security cameras at the store. The analysis used
artificial intelligence that had studied characteristics of shoplifters.
The AI is programmed to extract images of people putting merchandise into their
bags and leaving the store without paying. It also determines if 2 images are of
the same person by studying more than 100 comparison points including length
of stride and movement of body joints.
The analysis extracted images of the shoplifter moving suspiciously on a
previous visit to the store. A store clerk later spotted the man.
nhk.or.jp
Twice as many consumers in emerging markets
support retail facial recognition for purchase security
Using facial recognition to ensure purchase security is a good idea according to
61 percent of consumers in emerging markets, but only 26 percent of those in
developed markets, according to a global survey by Oracle. The survey results
show that retailers have become responsible for earning the right to remember
customer data, Oracle says.
 The
"New Topography of Retail" study found that a digital retail experience
including in-store facial recognition, virtual sales assistants and kiosks that
provide product recommendations is desired across emerging markets, while only
28 percent of those in Europe, Australia, and North America view such technology
use favorably. It also found that while 34 percent of those in Europe would
deprive all brands they engage with of all data about them if they could, but 87
percent of those in North America, 90 percent of those in Latin America, and 91
percent of those in the Middle East, India, and the APAC region would do so.
"As consumers question the benefit of sharing their information, research shows
they want to receive offers that are both relevant and personalized while
maintaining a level of anonymity. Retailers have the opportunity to deliver
personalized incentives, converting an emotional response towards privacy into a
meaningful interaction," says Mike Webster, senior vice president and general
manager of Oracle Retail. "As retailers address data privacy issues head-on,
brands who reinvent their approach to consumer engagement, look towards
attracting the right customers and recognize that capturing shoppers at the
point of intent will drive increased engagement and retention."
Biometric industry stakeholders told Biometric Update recently that retailers
need to offer incentives for consumer to accept retail deployments of facial
recognition in developed markets.
biometricupdate.com
Microsoft announces 6 principles for
responsible facial recognition, urges new laws
Microsoft President Brad Smith is at it again. In a move to accept corporate
responsibility and forward public policy dialogue, Smith announced in
a blog post that the company will carry out a plan to implement six
principles for ethical facial recognition by the end of Q1 2019.
After he called for facial recognition to be specifically regulated
in July, Smith warned
in November that failing to act soon could have a profound impact on
fundamental civil liberties. Now Smith writes that believes a basis exists for
initial legislation which would allow facial biometric technology to continue
advancing while protecting public interests. It is also up to tech companies to
address the issues related to the growing use of facial recognition, according
to Smith.
He identifies three problems that need to be addressed. The current state of the
technology increases the risk of biased decisions and outcomes in certain
situations, its widespread use can lead to privacy intrusions, and its use by
governments for mass surveillance could encroach on democratic freedoms, Smith
asserts.
To address those problems, Microsoft is adopting six principles for facial
recognition; fairness, transparency, accountability, non-discrimination, notice
and consent, and lawful surveillance.
biometricupdate.com
NRF: 250 Retail and Restaurant Companies Urge Congress to Fix Tax Reform Error
Delaying Investment Before Going Home
Amazon plans cashierless store in heart of London's West End
Franchisees taking complaints to McD's annual meeting
Kid Rock pays off layaways for 350 families at Nashville Walmart
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Retailers in an Omni-channel Environment Increasingly Deploy RFID for Superior
Customer Experience Management
The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) has caused a sea change in the buying
patterns of customers and, by extension, the market strategies of retailers.
E-commerce and m-commerce have virtually transformed every store into a
distribution center and retailers need to adopt technologies such as radio
frequency identification (RFID), videos, cameras, and data analytics to keep
track of inventory in each outlet and, eventually, enhance customer experience
management.
 "Retailers are looking to empower their mobile workforce to enrich customers'
purchase experience, and this will augment investments in technologies such as
handheld readers and smart point-of-sale (PoS) solutions," said Ram Ravi,
Industry Analyst for Industrials at Frost & Sullivan. "RFID sales will get a
further boost from the intensifying focus on loss prevention, inventory
management, and customer behavior analysis."
"To cater to the changing retail environment, system integrators need to develop
partnerships with data analytics and cloud service vendors," noted Ravi. "The
growing interest in item-level tagging in the retail industry will further
augment RFID demand."
prnewswire.com
Report: 91% Of Retailers Aren't PCI Compliant
With retailers struggling to get compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data
Security Standard, qualified security assessors are going to be in more demand
and can offer tokenization as one way of achieving compliance.
In a press release, TokenEx pointed to a new analysis by SecurityScorecard that
shows the alarming rate at which retailers aren't prepared. It found based on an
analysis of 1,444 domains from October of 2017 to March of 2018 that about 91
percent of retailers did not comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security
Standard, which puts them at risk from a data protection point of view.
According to TokenEx, the higher percentage of retailers that aren't complying
with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is likely the
result of companies' inability to keep up with the changing regulations and
cybercriminals that are constantly getting more sophisticated.
pymnts.com
International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals (ICMCP)
Appoints Four New Members to Strategic Advisory Board
The ICMCP, the leading destination for issues related to cybersecurity career
and industry developments impacting minority cybersecurity professionals, today
announced the appointment of four new members to its Strategic Advisory Board:
● Shelley Westman - Partner/Principal at EY
● Aaron Hughes - Vice President of Information Security and Deputy CISO at
Capital One
● Gleb Reznik, Deputy Chief Information Security Officer at Synchrony
● Michael Palmer - Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at The
National Football League
prweb.com
NSA Cyber Chief Says Companies Are Losing Ground
Against Adversaries
"The trend is going the wrong way," Mr. Joyce told security experts and other
enterprise information-technology officials Tuesday at the WSJ Pro Cybersecurity
Executive Forum in New York.
"It's not getting better, it's getting worse," he said, urging firms to be more
vigilant in protecting applications, systems and infrastructure.
While some security threats have been known for a long time, responding to them
has been a slow process, he said.
"We've put a lot of important things into technology and we may not have done
everything necessary to protect that technology," he said, citing baked-in
security features, stronger passwords and other measures.
In the corporate world, he said protective measures need to start with greater
oversight of approved access to secure networks: "You need to think about the
people you give the keys to your kingdom." That should be followed by critically
evaluating sources of a company's software and apps, hardware and other tools.
wsj.com
Walmart is testing a robot fry cook named 'Flippy' at its delis
 Walmart
(WMT) is in the early stages of testing a kitchen robot assistant named "Flippy"
at its Bentonville, Arkansas, headquarters to see whether or not it's the right
fit for its in-store delis.
Flippy is the world's first autonomous robotic kitchen assistant powered by
artificial intelligence from Miso Robotics, a two-year-old startup. The robot
made headlines a year ago debuting as the burger-flipping robot at a CaliBurger
franchise in Pasadena.
More recently, Flippy got a gig at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles with vending
food service company Levy Restaurants, part of Compass Group, to fry up chicken
tenders and tater tots. Through the World Series, Flippy churned out 17,000
pounds worth of the fried foods. It's able to fry up to eight baskets of food
simultaneously.
yahoo.com
Will automation take online grocery to the next level?
BurgerFi chain speeds up fast food service with facial recognition
Google+ hit by another data security breach, over 52M user accounts affected
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New Formjacking Technique Used to Skim Payment
Details Off Websites
30 online retail websites affected
Researchers at cybersecurity company Symantec have identified a new
formjacking campaign targeting a French ecommerce site that is prominently
featured in global shopping aggregator listings.
Over 30 online retail websites from all over the world were redirecting
traffic to the compromised site.
Formjacking is a term used to describe the injection of JavaScript code into the
payment section of a website. This code then skims the payment details of
unaware customers sending it onto to threat actors to abuse.
The online-store in Paris was injected with a formjacking script which collects
the payment information entered onto the website and then sends it to the domain
google-analyitics.org; a "typo-squatted" version of the genuine url
google-analytics.com.
Another piece of injected code on the same web page looks for the presence of
debugging tools, such as Firebug, to thwart security researchers analysing the
malicious script; a trend security researchers have increasingly noticed.
Siddhesh Chandrayan Threat Analysis Engineer at Symantec
wrote: "This latest formjacking campaign highlights the fact that attackers
are continuously altering and improving their malicious code and exploring new
delivery mechanisms to infect more users."
Symantec researchers say they have identified more than one million
formjacking attempts on over 10,000 websites in the last three months alone.
cbronline.com
These online gifts top fraudsters' holiday lists this year
Fraud picks up during the holidays when many online retailers get too busy to
properly evaluate all suspicious orders. Here are the types of products that
criminals have been stealing most frequently this season from e-commerce sites.
Luxury Reselling
Luxury goods are always popular with fraudsters, given they only need to steal
one item to cash in on a big payday. This year shoes were the most popular
fraudster target in the high-end market.
Gamer's Delight
Electronics tend to be favored by fraudsters for their steep sticker value and
their high market appeal. PS4s and Xboxs were extremely attractive targets this
year, part of a trend that saw three times the typical number of attackson
gaming consoles over Thanksgiving weekend.
Keeping Warm
Popular apparel items were influenced by the impending winter weather, with
fleece hoodies and waterproof boots taking the top spots. Online items both
affordable and expensive were targeted, showing that the seasonal market for
such goods is more important than the cost of the individual items themselves.
The Great Gift Card Rush
Digital goods, such as online gift cards, are a year-round favorite with
fraudsters.
digitalcommerce360.com
Amazon to penalize sellers who ship unsafe
packages to its warehouses, like leaky chemicals and unmarked aerosols
How the USPS' proposed changes could impact
online retailers
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Janesville, WI: Store Employee accused of
stealing $10,000 of mattresses
A Janesville mattress store employee stole more than $10,000 worth of mattresses
and other furniture that was later sold via social media. Owen A. Peterson, 23,
is charged with felony theft in the case. Peterson is accused of taking the
items from Janesville Comfort Shoppe and selling them to a Milton woman, telling
her that they were being taken to the dump or were discontinued items that he
bought with an employee discount, according to the complaint. Peterson told
police the money supported his heroin habit, and he gave some of the money to
his mother. Sofas, love seats, dressers and box springs also were taken,
according to the complaint.
gazettextra.com
 Dixon,
CA: Burglars Smash Window of Sporting Goods Store; $10,000 of merchandise
Burglars struck a Dixon sporting goods store early Monday morning, leaving with
thousands of dollars in merchandise. Surveillance video from Pacific Flyway
Supplies shows a 15-passenger van back into the large front window, and two
people run inside. The smash and grab burglary happened around 12:30 a.m.
Monday. The shop owner says the two thieves were inside for just about 90
seconds before leaving with an estimated $10,000 in hunting apparel. Dixon
Police are investigating the theft.
fox40.com
Costa Mesa, CA: Four Women Sought for Purse Robbery at
Costa Mesa Store
Authorities are asking the public to help them identify women who are suspected
of stealing purses from a Costa Mesa store and attacking a man who tried to stop
them. The store, called Treasures, is located inside the Mitsuwa Market Place.
The manager said the employee is OK, just shaken up. Police said the women
walked into the store around 7:30 p.m. Sunday after the store had closed. They
got away with more than 10 bags, many of them valued around $1,000 or more.
abc7.com
 Chesterfield,
MO: Chesterfield Police Special Enforcement Unit cracking down on shoplifters
Chesterfield Police Officer Trevor McBride is a member of his department's
Special Enforcement Unit or SEU. The group responds to calls for shoplifting,
fraudulent activity and any other potential criminal activity in retail areas.
With the holiday shopping in full swing, Chesterfield Police want shoppers and
any law-breakers to know that the unit is out patrolling shopping areas in both
uniform and plain clothes. In a Fox 2 exclusive, Jasmine Huda rode along with
police on patrol for the Special Enforcement Unit.
fox2now.com
  Greenwood,
IN: Greenwood Park Mall Shoplifters struck witnesses, mall employees with
vehicle; $4,000 of merchandise recovered
Two women were arrested after they attempted to steal more than $4,000 in
merchandise from a mall department store, pepper sprayed an employee and hit two
people with their car, police said. Tina R. Rabiu, 44, was arrested on a charge
of robbery, and Dominique C. Sheridan, 29, was arrested on charges of theft and
criminal recklessness, according to a police report.
dailyjournal.net
Brockton, MA: Stop & Shop shoplifter busted twice in a
week; merchandise totaling nearly $3,000
Joplin, MO: Two Walmart shoplifter arrested; 27 items from
Walmart and 36 items from other stores recovered
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Shootings, Incidents & Deaths
 Cumberland,
IN: Customer killed in robbery outside Dollar General was also robbed
Police have arrested two people after a customer leaving a Dollar General store
was robbed and fatally shot had exited the Dollar General on Monday night when
suddenly a man ran up to the customer, making him the victim of a robbery in the
parking lot, police said. During the investigation of the robbery of the
customer, police learned a second robbery was underway in the store. Police say
the customer, identified as 37-year-old Gregory Raley, was coming out of the
store. He was then taken around the corner where he was robbed and shot. Raley
was found laying on the ground outside the store and later died.
fox59.com
 Louisville,
KY: Police searching for missing Armored-Car driver and money that disappeared
from Jefferson Mall
Authorities in Louisville are looking for an armored-car driver who disappeared
along with an undetermined amount of money while waiting for his partner outside
a mall. On Wednesday, around 3:15 p.m., officers with the Louisville Metro
Police Department went to the Jefferson Mall after getting a call from Garda
Armored Truck Services that one of its drivers was missing. Police found the
armored car at the back of the mall, authorities said Thursday. Authorities
identified the missing driver as Mark Espinosa, 29, of Louisville.
abc7.com
Robberies & Thefts
Anchorage, AK: 3 suspects arrested following Armed Robbery
of Walmart
Anchorage Police states that officers responded to a shoplifting incident that
had turned into a robbery. Security for the Walmart on A Street told officers
that three store employees approached a woman who had hidden merchandise in her
purse. The woman then pulled out a handgun and pointed it at the employees
before exiting the store and leaving in a white SUV.
ktva.com
Chicago, IL Group of 8-10 people used pepper spray while
robbing Akira store
Chicago police are looking for a group of people who robbed a clothing store in
Bucktown, and pepper sprayed several employees. Police said the Akira store on W
North Ave. was robbed around 9 p.m. Monday. The group of eight to 10 people used
pepper spray as they robbed the store. The group then ran to the CTA Blue Line
stop at Damen, where two of them were detained for jumping the turnstiles.
Paramedics treated two store employees at the scene.
wgntv.com
Houston, TX: Robbers with rifle steal cash from Houston
armored truck courier
Two men are on the run after opening fire on an armored truck courier and taking
cash outside a bank in southeast Houston. Gunshots rang out just after 11 a.m.
Monday at the Chase Bank on Scarsdale at Beamer. The FBI said two robbers armed
with a rifle began shooting at the courier, who was working to fill an ATM.
Investigators said when the courier took cover, the two men stole money and then
fled the scene in a black SUV.
abc13.com
Vancouver, WA: Holiday Patrol nets 10 arrests; 4
shoplifters, 5 drug related and 1 firearm violation
Long Beach, CA: Man wanted for 6 Armed Robberies in past 3
weeks; pet store, wireless store and restaurants
Pueblo, CO: Bomb Squad called to Natural Grocers, store
evacuated; Robbery with note
Zales in the West Town Mall, Knoxville, TN reported a
Grab & Run on 12/10, items valued at $15,888
Credit Card Fraud
Casper, WY: Police arrest 2 over $35,000 in
Credit Card Fraud
Casper police officers arrested two men Friday in connection with a large
alleged credit card fraud scheme which included over 300 fraudulent ATM
transactions and over $60,000 being taken. Michael Voss, 37, was booked into
jail on a charge of credit card fraud and an immigration hold. Ionut Manea, 35,
was arrested on a single charge of credit card fraud.
The Casper Police Department was notified of fraudulent ATM activity at Jonah
Bank on Nov. 27. The activity had occurred five days earlier from midnight
through 6 p.m. and involved 70 different transactions by 17 different cards from
the same credit union in Arizona. During that time, $19,600 was removed from the
ATM. The Arizona credit union told a detective that their clients' credit card
numbers had been used at ATMs in Laramie, Rock Springs and Casper from Nov. 16
through Dec. 6 in a total of 352 transactions. The suspects had taken a combined
$61,052, though they had attempted to withdraw $110,471. In Natrona County, 140
transactions were made or attempted. Police note that the numbers reflect only
charges made on the Arizona accounts, and only the charges made in Wyoming.
k2radio.com
Blackman Township, MI: Police searching for
credit card thief who may be part of larger crew
The Jackson County Sheriff's Office released images captured recently from
surveillance video at Walmart, 700 W. Michigan Ave, showing a man enter the
store and buy items with a stolen credit card. Surveillance video shows the man
using the stolen credit card to purchase prepaid gift cards along with a basket
full of candy and cookies. Police believe the suspect shown in the images may be
part of a larger crew committing these crimes, police said.
mlive.com
Sentencings & Charges
Skokie, IL: Man Charged With Stealing Dozens Of Items From
Apple Store
A 27-year-old Chicago man has been charged with a smash-and-grab burglary of
Apple products from the Old Orchard Shopping Center. A Chicago man has been
charged with a late-night smash-and-grab burglary from the Old Orchard Shopping
Center, police said. At 4:38 a.m. on Nov. 28, a burglary was reported at the
Apple Store, where officers arrived to find the front door shattered. Police
said 20 iPhones, eight Apple watches and three laptops were reported stolen from
the display area of the store were stolen between 4:22 and 4:37 a.m. A week
later, prosecutors issued a warrant for the arrest of Edin Madjdanac, 27, of the
1700 block of West Estes Avenue in Chicago following an investigation into the
incident.
patch.com
Clarksburg, WV: Florida man sentenced for multi-state gas station skimming
scheme
Gulfport, MI: Illegal Alien Sentenced to 37 Months for Skimming, ID Theft
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