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on the Middletown, Ohio ORC ring bust - With Denny
Dansak, Kroger's Senior Corp. Mgr. of ORC educating the
public
Middletown police recently broke up a
multi-million dollar, regional shoplifting ring after a
six-week investigation that spanned four counties and
involved police agencies in 13 different jurisdictions.
Police have arrested more than 60 men and women on more
than 116 theft charges and other assorted felonies and
misdemeanors. Dansak applauded the police agencies
saying they “worked extremely well together” to bring
down the theft ring. Once operations like this are
completed, Dansak said, Kroger typically sees a “sharp
decrease” in the number and value of the thefts. But
eventually, he admitted, those thieves are replaced.
There is a low chance of getting caught and a high
reward,” said Dansak, who’s been in his position with
Kroger for four years. “They can make a good living.”
They need the cash to feed their drug addiction,” he
said of the thieves, who steal every day, sometimes
three or four times a day. He said the stolen items then
are sold to “fences” for pennies on the dollar.
Eventually, the items may end up at local flea markets
or the Internet, he said. Dansak has toured the flea
markets and seen products that he knows were stolen from
Kroger, selling for less than 50 percent of the
suggested retail price, or less than it costs Kroger to
purchase the same product wholesale. He called them
“professional thieves” who make their living steals from
retail centers throughout the United States. He said one
theft ring was caught with more 86,000 pair of Levis and
another had skids of baby formula. The items eventually
are distributed to “fences” who are doing business in
neighboring cities or even states. To combat this,
Kroger and other retail stores worked with Middletown
police and surrounding agencies. Numerous times the
stores gave police product to help them catch “fences”
purchasing what they thought was stolen merchandise.
(Source
whiotv.com)
ORC ex-con gets 2 1/2 years in prison and complains to
the judge while two of his accomplices get prison too!
Part of a four man ORC gang, the suspect got caught
before they could sell the electronics they had stolen
from Best Buy last April in Springfield, ILL. After
hearing the sentence the suspect said "How can you send
me to DOC for retail theft?" Higgins asked Mays. "There
are guys (in jail) with greater charges than this who
get probation after probation." "This happens sometimes,
Mr. Higgins," Mays answered. "I try to look at each case
individually." He was found guilty of selling crack
cocaine in Sangamon County in 2001 and spent just over
seven years in federal prison. He also had one other
felony conviction in 1999. He was one of four people who
entered the store and left with laptop computers and
Beats by Dr. Dre headphones that night. Each of the four
suspects allegedly stole one laptop computer. As a
group, they collected 14 headphones. The electronics
were valued at $6,933.96. The group was in the store for
less than three minutes. A store employee and another
witness saw a vehicle park next to the front door and
leave with the suspects. The vehicle, which had Ohio
license plates, was stopped by an Illinois State Police
trooper in Pike County, and all the stolen items were
recovered. He is the third person in the group to be
sent to prison as a result of the incident. Starlette S.
Higgins, 24, and Alexia I. Robinson, 22, were each
sentenced to two years on retail theft convictions.
Willisha S. Brown Joiner, 21, will be sentenced to
probation later this month. She was the only person in
the party who did not enter the store. Silva Harris, 30,
is scheduled to enter a plea on Friday.
(Source
whig.com)
Serial
Shoplifter Steals Unusual Items From At Least 5 Kohl’s
Stores in Ohio Police say a man is caught on
camera serial shoplifting from at least five different
locations in one week in July. He is accused of stealing
thousands of dollars in unusual items from Kohl’s
stores. Police say high-end Dyson vacuum cleaners and
Nike sneakers top his list. They say the same man stole
from Kohl's stores in Westerville, Pickerington,
Hilliard, Grove City and the store on Olentangy River
Road. (Source
10tv.com)
“Protection 1 is proud to be
sponsoring the D-D Daily ORC column to ensure the LP
industry
gets the information, education and critical
data they need to fight this national epidemic.”
Rex Gillette, VP Retail Sales, Protection 1. |
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