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ORC ring leader & eBay seller skips bail and disappears
in Clark County, WA.
A Clark County judge on Wednesday authorized a warrant
for the arrest of a former Meals on Wheels board member
who vanished after being charged with operating a sham
business buying and selling fraudulently-obtained gift
cards. Fred J. Engh, 30, was released May 31 on $100,000
bail after pleading not guilty to 55 charges. Engh is
accused of leading a network of shoplifters who swiped
merchandise from stores and then returned the items for
store credit on a gift card. Then, the shoplifters
allegedly sold the gift cards to Engh for about 40
percent to 75 percent of face value. He is accused of
purchasing the goods, knowing that they were stolen, and
selling them from his home on eBay for hundreds of
thousands of dollars in profit. The organized
shoplifting ring operated in Washington, Oregon and
Nevada. Clark County sheriff’s detectives began
investigating Engh in February after meeting with
multiple retailers who provided information that Engh
was inquiring into the value of hundreds of gift cards.
(Source
columbian.com)
ORC gang of 4 sentenced to prison in Rockford, ILL.
The four member gang created counterfeit checks and fake
ID's to buy things from one large chain store, then
they'd return it to another location for cash. One was
sentenced to 2 years in federal prison and must pay
$212,542 in restitution. Another was sentenced to 5 yrs
and one to 1 yr. with the last one to be sentenced in
September. (Source
wrex.com)
Cell
Phone Thief Targets 2 Local H.H. Gregg Stores in
Pittsburgh, PA.
A thief with a very specific shopping list took
nearly $10,000 worth of merchandise Sunday from two H.H.
Gregg stores. (Source
pittsburgh.cbslocal.com)
 Facial
tatoos helped bust an ORC duo hitting Nordstrom for
handbags at Town Center Mall
Investigators said the 23-year-old walked into the
Nordstrom at the Town Center at Boca Raton mall on
Monday and ran off with five handbags valued at $1,450.
The bags were sold for cash to keep him from getting
evicted from his Hallandale home, according to a Boca
Raton police report. But the cash wasn't enough because
a day later, police say Bonilla was back in the store as
his getaway driver, Laneshia Watson, 23, of Hallandale
Beach, waited in a car outside with three kids. Watson
told police Bonilla was still $175 short after selling
the handbags, so after a job interview on Tuesday, he
came back to the Nordstrom. (Source
sun-sentinel.com)
ORC Duo busted stealing liquor from Safeway and QFC
stores in Seattle
Issaquah police have arrested a man and woman in
connection with a series of liquor thefts from Eastside
supermarkets. The suspects, an 18-year-old SeaTac man
and 39-year-old Seattle woman, were arrested Sunday
during a traffic stop as they tried to flee from a
recent theft, police said. Police said they also found
30 bottles of liquor and evidence of numerous thefts.
The pair targeted QFC and Safeway stores in Issaquah,
Kirkland and Redmond, police said. They have been booked
into the King County Jail for investigation of organized
retail theft. (Source
seattletimes.com) |
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